Adult Only Beach Area

[Cinder & Smoke]

Hmmm, seems to me that the taxes paid to support the beach are from everyone.

Are those under 21 having their taxes reduced by an appropriate amount
to cover the fact that that part of the beach is no longer open to them?

Two Sides to most coins ...

What about the Kiddie Swings in the MUNICIPAL Park that are too small for me to use?

And a BIG one --- I got no KIDS --- WHY do I have to pay School Taxes?

As long as no particular age group gets ALL the goodies ...
a reasonably fair distribution of the benefits and perks seems equitable.

And one might ask ... just how many of the Under-21 Crowd are actually paying Beach Taxes?


/s/ Phred

[wombat2u2004]

What about the Kiddie Swings in the MUNICIPAL Park that are too small for me to use?
/s/ Phred

Yeah....but you get to ride around on a fire truck !!!!!
Wom

[Cinder & Smoke]

Yeah ... but you get to ride around on a fire truck !!!!!
Wom

Tooo-Shay!!

Phunnie, but we've had TAXpayers b!tch about wanting to ride on "THEIR Fire Truck"!

(Best part is I get to blow da Sireen and run wiffa RED Lites on! PHUNN!)

[wombat2u2004]

OMG C&S.....you want your own beach and eat your fire truck to ?????
UNFAIR !!!!!!!
Wom

[Lady's Human]

But you DO have a voice in what your municipal taxes go toward!

I have yet to vote against a school budget increase. (oops, one exception. I DID vote against a new school in the town we used to live in.......mainly because the town had JUST finished renovating the school that the new school has replaced. I have something against a town paying $40 million to renovate a school to have the school board ask for another increase 6 months later to tear the whole thing down and build new)

I also wouldn't have an issue with something like this is it was voted on by the general public in an election.

A tad off topic, but.......

If you don't like what your rep in DC is doing, vote them out of office! People can't be too upset with what's going on in DC because last time I checked the re-election rate was still north of 80%

[dukedogsmom]

But you DO have a voice in what your municipal taxes go toward!

I have yet to vote against a school budget increase. (oops, one exception. I DID vote against a new school in the town we used to live in.......mainly because the town had JUST finished renovating the school that the new school has replaced. I have something against a town paying $40 million to renovate a school to have the school board ask for another increase 6 months later to tear the whole thing down and build new)

I also wouldn't have an issue with something like this is it was voted on by the general public in an election.

Why should that have to be voted on when the regular parks, etc, aren't voted on? Why should this case be different?

[Lady's Human]

Becuase it affects everyone who uses the beach, and closes off an area of the beach to some who may be paying for the beach.

[Cinder & Smoke]

But you DO have a voice in what your municipal taxes go toward!

If you don't like what your rep in DC is doing, vote them out of office!

People can't be too upset with what's going on in DC because last time I checked
the re-election rate was still north of 80%

VOTE??

Whas'zat?

Last time I checked the average Voter Turnout was South of 25% of the "Registered Voters" ...
Hate to think of what the percentage of ELLIGIBLE Voters that might be.



/s/ Phred

[Lady's Human]

Phred,

My point exactly.

Congress has a 14% approval rating according to one poll.........but whaddaya want ta bet that in the next election cycle less than 10% of incumbents are defeated?

[CathyBogart]

I love it. The more places people can go to RELAX, not hang around screaming kids, the better. There are so many family-friendly places funded by public money that a childless/childfree person wouldn't be able to enjoy, I don't see why this is a problem. I don't mind going to a nude beach to have a relaxing afternoon of QUIET myself, but I know a lot of people who would.

[Pembroke_Corgi]

But you DO have a voice in what your municipal taxes go toward!

I have yet to vote against a school budget increase. (oops, one exception. I DID vote against a new school in the town we used to live in.......mainly because the town had JUST finished renovating the school that the new school has replaced. I have something against a town paying $40 million to renovate a school to have the school board ask for another increase 6 months later to tear the whole thing down and build new)

I also wouldn't have an issue with something like this is it was voted on by the general public in an election.

A tad off topic, but.......

If you don't like what your rep in DC is doing, vote them out of office! People can't be too upset with what's going on in DC because last time I checked the re-election rate was still north of 80%

National elections are a joke....the electoral college is outdated and probably still in place so we voters have less power. I believe in some states, the college can actually vote for a different candidate than the one that gets the most votes. The last presidential election was an example of when my vote counted for nothing. I did not vote for Bush, but slightly more people in my state at the time did, so it went for Bush, therefore rendering my vote useless.

If we had a true democracy instead of a republic I would be more inclined to think voting actually works. In small elections, yes, you can make a difference. Perhaps that is even where it counts most. But in large scale elections I am beginning to think we are making nothing more than a statement by going to the polls, because in 2000 Gore won the popular vote but lost the election most likely due to shady polls activity (yet we are supposed to be ruled by majority- even if there wasn't any suspicious activity, he should still have won due to popular vote) and in 2000 it was pretty much the same thing all over again except Kerry didn't get the popular vote (most likely because all of the people waiting at the polls for hours because they were too poor to take off work to vote so they couldn't cast one).

I wish I could believe that if everyone really cared enough to vote (most people do not care or even know what is going on, so that is probably why the same people keep getting re-elected) we could change our country for the better. But I really don't believe that anymore, because all the evidence I've seen points to the contrary.

[Freckles]

I didn't read this thread at first because I thought it was referring to "Adults only" in another way.

[Kfamr]

I didn't read this thread at first because I thought it was referring to "Adults only" in another way.

Ditto.


I think the idea is a nice one. The beach can often be headaching with a bunch of children running around. But, I've found "adults" can be just as obnoxious on the beach as children.

Which is why I prefer to go out to the islands... usually there's no one else around.