The Connecticut Marine Trades Association has organized a
Breakfast with the Legislature
to educate our representatives about the effects of the Governor’s proposed budget on the Marine Industry

Wednesday, March 9th, 8:30 – 10am
Legislative Office Building
Capital Ave., Hartford, CT*

The Proposed CT Budget would impact the Marine Industry by:
Imposing Sales Tax on Repair and Maintenance Labor Charges
Imposing Sales Tax on Winter Storage
Imposing Sales Tax on Towing
Sweep the Boating Account from the DEP to the General Fund
Add a 3% luxury Tax on new boat sales over $100,000
Allow Municipalities to impose property tax on boats.
Call your Legislators and invite them to meet on March 9th to discuss the potential effect of these changes on the industry. If you need your Representative’s/Senator’s contact information, follow the link below: http://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/menu/CGAFindLeg.asp

*Directions at http://www.cga.ct.gov/capitoltours/directions.htm.

Further information can be obtained at CMTA 860-767-2645.

Very nice post Frank. Maybe your smarter than Kev says.LOL

This is the kind of thing the CPBA may be able to help keep from happening. we should band together and have a party, Uh meet at the capital.

I will be there protesting against it...

I'll light the building on fire....

In all seriousness, I am fully against things like this...

I will voice my opinion..

I love how they have the meeting on a Wednesday during a time at which all the people that this effects are working!!!! Very frustrating.

For me its a simple solution...If any of these bills pass, my boat will become a RI registered boat. The perks of having a house in RI. Adios CT.

great post frank. thanks for the info.

Here was the reply from the Connecticut Marine Trades Association when I contacted them to see if we could help out in anyway.

You can be at the Legislative Office Building Monday morning and testify against the tax increases in bill No. 1007. They will certainly do a number on boating.


If we are going to be there and testify we need to organize it and have a representative, I am not sure right now If I cna make it but I will look into it.
If anyone else would like to be involved whos a member of the CPBA that would be great.

Check this out!!! Found this in another thread...................

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This is too true to be funny.

The next time you hear a politician use the
Word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about
Whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend,
But one advertising agency did a good job of
Putting that figure into some perspective in
One of it's releases.

A.
A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
B.
A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
C.
A billion hours ago our ancestors were Living in the Stone Age.
D.
A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
E.
A billion dollars ago was only
8 hours and 20 minutes,
At the rate our government
Is spending it.

While this thought is still fresh in our brain...
let's take a look at New Orleans ...
It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division.

Louisiana Senator,
Mary Landrieu (D)
Is presently asking Congress for
250 BILLION DOLLARS
To rebuild New Orleans . Interesting number...
What does it mean?
A.
Well .. If you are one of the 484,674 residents of New Orleans
(every man, woman, and child)
You each get $516,528.
B..
Or... If you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787..
C.
Or... If you are a family of four....
Your family gets $2,066,012.

Washington , D. C
HELLO!
Are all your calculators broken??
Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax (Fed)
Federal Unemployment Tax (FU TA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
IRS Penalties(tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Tax
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax (Truckers)
Sales Taxes
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax
Telephone Minimum Usage! Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
(And to think, we left British Rule to avoid so many taxes) !

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago.....
And our nation was the most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt....
We had the largest middle class in the world.....
And Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What happened?
Can you spell:
'POLITICIANS!'

And I still have to
Press '1'
For English.

I hope this goes around
the U S A
At least 100 times

What the hell happened???


NOW!

Try to comprehend what one trillion is.
And now we they talk in TRILLIONS of dollars

The first thing that came to my mind is we were properous because we used slave labor.

Our workforce was free. In the wrong sense of the word.

Taxes are needed but it has gotten out of hand, no one was paying anyattention to where there money was going because CREDIT made everything seem OK.

Now someone has to pay the dues and its gonna be our generation.

Look at quality of life though. Before credit people had 1 car, only the wealthy owned boats or went on vacations.

Credit can be good, but not when the terms get crazy. People need to be held accountable for thier use of credit and lenders need to be rained in a little on there terms allowed by law. The variable rate mortgages should be done away with and 20% down should be mandatory for ANY LOAN.

Fact of the matter is you can still get an FHA loan with 3.5% down with a good credit score. So if the market checks itself 5% people are left with no equity.

No equity+no morals = default on the loans.

The government is no better.
Heres that equation.
No accountability+Tax payers money = Overspending

Let Them be personally responsible for every dime they spend under possible litigation by the american people and you will see spending STOP.LOL

While thats an extreme remedy I do think there needs to be some accountability for those spending our money.

let me say that when I say we above I mean the country as many of us and our families were not even in this country in the time of slavery.

I'll call Birbarie and Guilford BY's tomorrow for support. Does OP know about this? I can take the day to go protest. Be sure to contact your reps and voice your "opinion".
Who can drag their boats up there...we could really hog up the lot and make a statement.....
c