Still Steaming

[Animal]

I just posted this on the farming forum, but I stll need to vent, feeling tough today weather is sh!t, thought I would do paper work, organic certification came yesterday in the mail, filled it out, got to the last page, you know the paying part, that certifaction has went up 51% $580 minimum, when I started in 02 it cost $100 for any certification, where is the end?

 

[960]

When you are either dead or broke, both lovely thoughts.

 

[JMS MN]

Opposites have the same situation. Private chemical applicator license started out at about $15 for five years, then went to a three-year program, with costs up at each renewal. Either 50 or 100 now. If I need a restricted use product now, I just hire it done, or switch to what I can buy without the license. Typical gov bs. Test is more theory than being able to mix and operate. It"s all about the money, and some boneheads needing to justify their parasitic existence.

 

[paul]

In farming, you get dead broke just before.....

--->Paul

 

[Mike (WA)]

Increasing fees is the equivalent of taxation, but the agency can raise them without legislation, in most cases. Makes outrageous fee increases very tempting for guvment, because you have no choice in the matter. Recording of real estate documents has increased from $8 to $42 in Washington in the past 10 years. Nice to be able to just raise prices at will, with no competition to worry about.

 

[rrlund]

The end comes when you wise up and buy a bag of fertilizer and some herbicide.