On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:07:16 -0400, James Fischer <bee-quick@BEE-
QUICK.COM> wrote:

>The current financial troubles will cut
>deeply into the State of New York's tax
>revenues.  Budget-cutting will ensue.
>
>Cutting staff positions that have not
>yet been filled would be "painless",
>so they will be the first to go.
 I've only lived here 5 yrs but I have to respectfuly disagree. From what 
I have seen so far, they will fill the positions, run a bigger deficit, 
and then raise taxes. I would guess the possibility exhists, since they 
have every other known tax, including taxing trees, that taxing bee hives 
would not be hard for them to do. I was sent a survey, the results of 
which are private??, that asks enough questions to guestimate your income 
from selling queens, nucs, etc. Do you think they have enough people 
working for the state to use this information to see If your tax return is 
reasonable??? 
 I'm lucky I've practiced being a bad beekeeper and looking stupid that I 
feel safe. I can with out a doubt say that living in N.Y. you have the 
least amount of personel rights, or protections, of any state I have lived 
in by alot.

slopping through the mud in Syracuse. mike bassett

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