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| Grumpy Old Pharts Board Gerritol, Ex-Lax, Immodium, Bad Breath - all requirements for the Grumpy Board |
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02-27-2009, 09:28 PM
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Location: Middleboro MA
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Not that it is ever going to be a reality, but that would suck for those of us who like to try different spots at the canal when we fish there, I'd imagine fewer people would fish the capeside if that happened.  |
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02-27-2009, 10:10 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
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Never thought of that, bouoncing back and forth across the Canal during the course of a weekend could get real pricey. Won't happen. These wacked proposals are just to condition us for the real screwaroo to be announced lated. Brace yourselves...
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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02-27-2009, 10:14 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
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Why should/would "Cape Residents" be exempt??? Are they not Mass. residents??? Can't wait to hear the reasoning...if you dare!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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02-28-2009, 06:41 AM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigFish
Why should/would "Cape Residents" be exempt??? Are they not Mass. residents??? Can't wait to hear the reasoning...if you dare! |
Because Ted Kennedy lives here  |
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02-28-2009, 08:27 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
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Touche'!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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02-28-2009, 11:19 AM
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OLDGOAT7205963
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: CAPE
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Dear Bigfish Were exempt because were so cute
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02-28-2009, 12:08 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigFish
Why should/would "Cape Residents" be exempt??? Are they not Mass. residents??? Can't wait to hear the reasoning...if you dare! |
Because the people proposing this lunacy are the Barnstable County Commission, and the Cape Cod Commission. Their theory is that the 240,000 year round residents of Barnstable County pay for the upkeep of the roads and cause little of the wear on them--or something like that.
The Corps of Engineers will never allow it, IMO.
And if they do--I hope these bozos remember that part of Barnstable County is on the other side of the bridges.
And if not---my car is registered in "Bourne", not Buzzards Bay  |
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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02-28-2009, 12:13 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
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I thought we all pay for the upkeep of the roads?? Excise tax and such???! People act as if "over the bridge" is some far away land that is just too special to be taxed like the folks who live on the "mainland side"........I wonder how many even know the canal was man made???  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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03-01-2009, 08:38 AM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigFish
I thought we all pay for the upkeep of the roads?? Excise tax and such???! People act as if "over the bridge" is some far away land that is just too special to be taxed like the folks who live on the "mainland side"........I wonder how many even know the canal was man made??? |
I would say that a good 40% of the people who live on the other side don't know that, and maybe 80% don't realize that "Cape Cod" in the 19th century was considered by many to be anything inside the hook--up to Plymouth and beyond.
There is no such legal entity under the General Laws as "Cape Cod". The legal entity in question is the County of Barnstable. |
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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03-01-2009, 11:18 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Back to C.Cod x'd Rangeley Me.
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they're trying to get everyone fired up about this  and then run something else in the" Back Door". |
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