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on 12/7/02 5:52 PM, Bob Saville at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...I can't build any additional hangars (not even open T-hangars). Therefor, I have about 3/4 of my land that I must pay taxes on but can not use for anything other than farming. (Right now i'm growing a LOT of grass and weeds which are a fire hazard to the entire area during the late summer months but they don't seem to care about that, just so I'm not "Further Escalating The misuse Of Agricultural Land".) And my taxes are paying their wages?????? Signed: Annonymous ...I'm glad to be an American. I just wish America was a little less government and a lot more......'Of the people, by the people and for the people' instead of 'Of the government, by the government and ~ the people'. Jim Phelps wrote: ...I'am a farmer and have to deal with the goverment and the new farm program is ten times more complicated than the old. So when the FAA comes up with new hard to obey rules it's just par for the course. I long for the old days with less goverment. Somone has said that we should be thankful we are not getting all the goverment we are paying for... ----------------------------------------- Yo, y'all, Looks like I've joined a bunch of radicals, so just have to toss in my 2 cents with good company! I've got 32+ acres here in Texas. To steal words from someone who put it just about right, "I wouldn't mind the taxes so much if they went to a friendly government". It has been said that the closest thing to eternal life we are likely to see on this earth is a government agency. They grow because bureaucrats are like fire ants. We're smarter, but we can only donate our time and attention briefly. They're full-time, much more numerous, and supported by us! We've got the same problem in Texas they have in washington. All those glittering generalities put in our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, and our Bill of Rights don't mean a thing if no money is appropriated for fair interpretation and enforcement. There is no government agency charged with defending "rights" of the people against a greedy, overbearing, oppressive, unfair and/or incompetent bureaurocracy. In fact, such bureaucrocracies appropriate tax dollars all the time by claiming to represent "the people", and then use these dollars to methodically extinguish or render meaningless individual's rights they are supposedly sworn to uphold. We're at fault too...we meekly allow them to do it. The legal jurisdiction of the FAA over private pilots arises from their duty to regulate interstate commerce. Over the years they have so effectively eliminated commercially profitable use of private aircraft and/or the Private Pilot rating no reason remains to justify continued regulatory oversight! I think AOPA, EAA, et al should send their lawyers to Washington on behalf of member pilots to file legal petitions as appropriate which would force the FAA to bear their fair and full burden of proof as to why (today) private ownership and/or operation of aircraft needs bureaucratic control and supervision beyond private ownership and/or operation of an auto. If the FAA would argue to continue the present system, let them provide "the people" a comprehensive and pursuasive cost-benefit basis for doing so, or find themselves subject to government "sunset statutes" and eventual extinction. (thunderclap...fade to black) Bill Bayne ========================== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
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