NH House Bill 427

In Minnesota are Governor has been saying that he will not raise taxes yet he has raised the fees on hunting and fishing license,camping fees, and ect some as much as 500%. For instance 5years ago a burning permit was free, now they charge $25. Most of the money goes into the general fund. Finally today someone brought it to public attention. Mainly because of the declining license sales. Just a way of sneak taxation. Same goes for are county goverment raise taxes and then give themselves a raise in pay.

Jenjudkins, I didn’t realize that this was being posted here so I posted in the horse forum. I guess what is important is that this is brought to the attention of the entire horse community. It is happening in New Hampshire but it could be your own home state. We do need to fight this and defeat it.

Rumor has it that the legislator who initiated this bill, Rep. Skinder has also proposed that fish be renamed “sea kittens” a term that is being popularized by PETA.

Check this out.

http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/sea_kittens1

It appears that this woman is a PETA advocate and has an agenda.

Sea Kittens, guess she would be in favor of ending all fishing in the state. Along with using animals including horses for pleasure or work.

@Legio3arty 5443 wrote:

What ever happened to the good old days when we provided the emotionally and mentally disturbed with care in an institutional setting rather than electing them to public office. Years ago here in Taxachusetts the PETA weenies managed to roll several individually ignorant pieces of legislation into what they call an omnibus bill. That’s the legal equivalent of putting a bunch of turds in the same bag. One outlawed the trapping of beavers. Another opened membership on the board that decides where the money from game licensing goes to people who never held a license or permit. The third outlawed the practice of using hunting dogs in the off-season to “hound” or scare away bears. They put on a big public dis-information campaign including pathetic footage of a fox caught in a leg-hold trap that had been illegal for twenty years. Despite being opposed by the Federation of Wildlife Biologists and just about every sane group involved, they managed to find enough morons in Metro-Boston to get it passed. The next year the beaver populaton exploded, wiping out trees that prevented erosion, damming ponds and culverts everywhere, and flooding wells. It just goes to show that a well intentioned idiot is more dangerous than someone who is evil. Voters who are uninformed or misled will gladly support someone who sounds like the mean well.

What he said about the beavers is true. I was in Mass. about 3 years ago on company business, for the company I used to work for. I was amazed to see bogs everywhere and when I said that I didn’t remember seeing them on previous visits the answer I got was exactly what he said about the law being changed to outlaw trapping them. I know from personal experience they can become a nuisance very quickly.

As to the license, fee or whatever …Yep just another sneaky tax. I’ve heard the same thing is being considerd at the federal level for cattle. $82.50 per head, annually to offset the methane produced by catlle. Not that it would cause the cows to produce less methane, but it is slick way for the money grubbers in D.C. to get deeper in your pocket. Hopefully this is just a crazy rumor, but owing to the bunch of inmates that are running the asylum up there it would not surprise me a bit.

Good luck in your efforts to get this nonsense knocked down in N.H.