Quote Originally Posted by BubbaBass1 View Post
Wouldn't that be the same as mandatory licensing?

I agree, If it takes a boating safety course and passing an exam to educate the ignorant. $30 would be worth it.

BB1
I too totally agree, $30 is nothing for a good safety education. There exists many problems though, the first off the top of my head is that online courses are bogus. Who knows if I am the one who took the course, or did a friend, or my wife, or my child... who tookt he course? I may have the card, but no proof it was me. This seems nothing more than a way to "tax" us users.

I'm not opposed to the tax, if it is applied to making our resource cleaner, safer, and renewing the resource.

I would support an actual mandatory course, that you have to attend in person, if that is what our soceity wants. I'll stand by my previous stand though. I do respect and totally understand we all have different ideas, and that is what is so great. The more of us that collaborate, the better chance we get a good solution.

This has been a great conversation. I hope somehow our problems will be solved.

Oh, something I just thought of as I was finishing the post. We will never have the mandatory safety class. Why? How in the world will it be applied to all that truly make our "lake" communities survive? The tourists!! Our government will not apply a rule that will limit tourism. Now they may decide to apply the law only to those of us that have KY license on our boats. In doing so though, they will be breaking constitutional law. Again, this is not the place for that discussion. And finally, with several of our waterways bridging multi-state boundries, it would be nearly impossible to try to regulate some type of "safe boater" certification without total cooperation between the states. Heck, we can't get that for even more important stuff. LOL

Thanks to all of you on this post. I love it when the internet experience makes me look at things from different perspectives.

HDF