What are you talking about?
You're gonna have to source that comment...
you are a little warm, it's all about the money and control
1 If they categorize farmers as commercial workers they take protections granted them as professionals, as they did us in 1990.
2 the state gets money off of re licensing, and the double endorsement would get the avg state an extra $35 so would the hazmat (for fertilizer) PLUS now homeland security gets $145 AND a background of everyone, PLUS fingerprints, any farmer with a felony would lose the ability to transport his own chemicals.
and I almost forgot physicals!
3 If they get commercial status the farmer has paperwork retention requirements and is subject to audit at will from the state and Feds...
4 Losing the off highway status creates a new pile of payers for 2290, TT&L, IFTA, DMV licensing, when Reagan created the 2290 (use fee) in the 80's it netted the general fund 20 Billion, I don't know how many farm tractors there are and they wouldn't get the $550 I pay per unit but it would surely be a pile.
5 CSA 2010 would surely apply and again the gov., would have control up to and including a farm I would guess.
6 They probably wouldn't need to get FMCSA authority but I would guess USDOT numbers would be applied.
My trucks avg. $16,000.00 ea. a year in taxes and somebody's thinking of ways to increase the size of the cash cow and like me, YOU'LL pay for what I pay for...
Price bacon lately? boy are my expenses getting high.
Ping to 72. This man knows of what he speaks. You might have to investigate the article and replies to figure out just what this is about, but here, brothers and sisters is:
Truth.
Thank you brother.
Ihttp://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=242384,00.htmlRS Gives Truckers Three-Month Extension; Highway Use Tax Return Due Nov. 30
IR-2011-77, July 15, 2011
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today advised truckers and other owners of heavy highway vehicles that their next federal highway use tax return, usually due Aug. 31, will instead be due on Nov. 30, 2011.
Because the highway use tax is currently scheduled to expire on Sept. 30, 2011, this extension is designed to alleviate any confusion and possible multiple filings that could result if Congress reinstates or modifies the tax after that date. Under temporary and proposed regulations filed today in the Federal Register, the Nov. 30 filing deadline for Form 2290, Heavy Highway Vehicle Use Tax Return, for the tax period that begins on July 1, 2011, applies to vehicles used during July, as well as those first used during August or September. Returns should not be filed and payments should not be made prior to Nov. 1
Incrementalism ......tick tick tick...
Good info folks.... Thanks !
Sigh...
Yet another complaining about 'his fair share'?
You'll get yur silly money BACK when you are forced uh, permitted to drive one of the new (yes... yer old one will be crushed) HIGH-MILEAGE big rigs the Fed's have miraculously commanded to be created.
I want to see them try and enforce this. Some may be fairly simple, like around fuel. Tax it all, simple for the gubmint, but enforcing time constraints on operators? How will they deal with pending weather?
Cotton pickers ran 24 hours a day for three days prior to landfall of our last storm. Granted, we received no rain, but it could have easily been 12”.
They have no clue to what goes on in farming, ranching, hell, what working for a living involves. This is why they create more problems with their “fixes” than they will ever solve.