SailNet Community - View Single Post - Boaters pulling up anchor to avoid tax
View Single Post
  #27 (permalink)  
Old 11-19-2007
hellosailor's Avatar
hellosailor hellosailor is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 6,582
Rep Power: 7
hellosailor will become famous soon enough hellosailor will become famous soon enough
G-
If you think all that stuff was free--that proves the value of your free education was somewhat lacking. Sorry old chap, you may not have paid at the counter when you got all those things--but I'd bet they were all funded by programs that your taxes are paying for, right now. Or at least, programs that SOMEone's taxes are supposed to be paying for.

The SC program may be nasty and hostile and all sorts of things but it doesn't surprise me in the least. In MOST of the US, if you have a motor vehicle (including an auxiliary motor vessel, such as a sailboat with a permanently installed engine) in any state for more than 30 days, the state motor vehicle codes require you to REGISTER THE VEHICLE IN THAT STATE.

Yes, that means if you bring your car down to visit Granny and stay for five weeks, technically you've got to get it out of state sometime in the there, or change the registration (and insurance) on it. One of the many widely found laws, equally widely ignored when folks are "just visiting" and they still maintain their home address.

It's not a federal issue, each state has the right to do this.
Reply With Quote Share with Facebook