When I was a boy I often went fishing with my dad, and it was a great
family activity. You could be dirt-poor and still go fishing. The pastime
was very cheap! Now that I am grown and have two boys, I cannot take my boys
fishing, not any more. In the State of Texas, the cost of a fishing license
with salt water stamp has now gone up to almost $30.00. This means that to
take my boys fishing.... for us to be able to go throw hooks in the water
for just one year... would cost $90.00. This is just too much. NO more. I
have had it. We don't have that kind of money for something that we might do
only 3 times in the whole year.
Yea, we have the freedom, technically speaking, to hunt and fish, they
didn't outright ban them....but they might as well have, when they "license,
fee and tax you to death, so that it is just unaffordable. So, through their
endless taxes, they rob away our abilities to do things that our forefathers
could freely do. Each year, the ability to experience freedoms that our
forefathers could freely partake of becomes more and more a possibility only
for the rich. The way that they are steadily growing the whole parks and
wildlife dept., becoming ever more bloated with over-paid rule enforcers and
bureaucrats, the price will doubless be $100 or more in a few years.
The power to tax is the power to rob away a mans' substance, to support
the regulators and those on the govt. dole. And when they sap away a mans'
substance...well, obviously you are then robbed of your freedoms
economically, you have no options, you cannot travel, you cannot do much of
anything recreational, you can do nothing but subsist.
You know, maybe this is the intended plan? I mean, what better way to
conserve the fish population than by making it too expensive for all but the
rich?
Thank you, Texas.