On Apr 11, 1:56 pm, "Brian O" wrote:

You know, here in California, there is requirement that any fee has to
have a nexus and a sense of proportion to the activity being
regulated. That's only fair.

That doesnt apply to federal fees. California.....now I understand...

Yeah - California gets it *right* - and passes a law keeping
bureaucrats honest - while the feds keep on stealing us blind.

It requires the fee collector to
perform a rigorous exercise to justify the level of fees. However,
when the fee greatly exceeds the value of the equuipment being
operated, and there seems to be no valuable use for the after the
payment, something's rotten in Denmark.

Of course, most stuff in California is rotten...

Oh, yeah, nothing like your vaunted Federal Government where
everything is done according to Hoyle and nobody is dishonest or
underhanded. Sheesh, if that isn't a freaky attitude, I don't know
what is.

Our government was founded on law. When people like you take the law into
their own hands, anarchy erupts.

Founded on law but run by scoundrels.

Sometimes anarchy works. People exceeding the speed limit, for
example. Most speed limits used to be ridiculously low, and almost
nobody observed them...went way too fast, in fact...and despite the
tickets the anarchists got, speeds did not drop. Finally about 12 -
15 years back, the Feds restored sanity to speed limit laws, raised
them for highways, and now most people observe the speed limits, even
if they aren't quite as a fast as folks used to go. It wasn't because
the American motorist rose up and petioned Washingon - it was because
a few smart people paid attention to what the anarchists were saying
with their higher "illegal" speeds.

Stealing is stealing, no matter how you justify it.

That's right - and when the Feds do it, it's still stealing, no matter
how *you* justify it.

Go for it. Illegality breeds irresponsibility.

Nope. Onerous government regs do.