MapMaker53 said:Freedom comes with a price, and that price is rules and some degree of taxation to support society and allow all to live in relative comfort and safety. Without laws and rules to follow, a society has anarchy -- and anyone who wishes to see what anarchy is like just has to turn on the World News every night. Sure, the government tends to over-tax -- mainly because they tend to piss away a lot of the money they collect. But I for one am perfectly okay with paying a government registration fee in order to keep this hobby/business relative safe and regulated, which at the same time establishes a means of rescinding permits of those caught doing unsafe or unwanted things with their drones and be arrested if they fly without having a permit. I'm referring to drones above a certain weight class and altitude/distance capability -- like the Phantom. Sign this sheep up.
What "degree of taxation" do you find acceptable? 50% of your income? 60%? 75% Even medieval warlords only demanded a third of your income! So that people can live in "comfort & safety?" You define "comfort" as in offering people the ability to have kids that others are expected to provide for, or engage in behaviors known to lead to failure without consequence? What of the countless pork & waste which even you acknowledge? The government was established to provide some fairly basic functions like National Defense, major infrastructure projects, etc.. Here in the USA, the government can't even fulfill its primary role...defending the borders! Government was never intended to function as a catch all, cradle-to-grave entitlement safety net so people can engage in reckless behavior without repercussions. When it attempts to do so you wind up with the sort of socioeconomic basket cases like we have in Western Europe, and where the USA is quickly heading under the imperial rule of the current regime. I am sorry but I find it truly disgusting what feckless pansies Western societies have become.
We don't need government issuing licenses & permits to fly a GD RC aircraft! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: