[TN-Bird] Who authorized bluebird tag increase?
- From: Wallace Coffey <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: 1-A TN-Birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 21:24:07 -0400
TN-Birders:
One of my Tennessee Wildlife Viewing tags for my family autos
had an increase in cost of 20% over last year! The notice
came today.
I paid $49.00 for the TWRA-promoted "Bluebird tag" in
January 2002 and this year that cost is $59.00 !
So who authorized the $10.00 increase for a Wildlife Viewing
tag and who gets the money? Why was this necessary?
Did the cost of all regular tags in all counties go up $10.00
or did the legislature, TWRA, or the Tennessee Department
of Public Safety, or all of them agree to just dump
another $10.00 on us because the Bluebird tag buyers love
their tags and have been supportive?
We're we given notice of the increase? Has it been going
on for months and I have been standing out in the field with
my head stuck in the sand and not paying attention?
Maybe I am just lost in the woods and are you?
Has this been beaten to death in the media and I'm just
out of the loop?
I live in Sullivan County and our cost for regular tags is as low as
any county in Tennessee. We pay a regular tag registration
fee of $24.00 plus $1.00 postage and handling for renewal.
No county in Tennessee gets less than that total of $25.00
for renewal. Surely the cost of a regular Tennessee auto
tag in Sullivan county last year wasn't just $15.00 and the
regular tags just popped up this year to $25.00 !
I have been very skeptical of the entire Tennessee vanity
tag-type program since an article appeared in the Knoxville
News-Sentinel sometime back pointing out that one of the
Tennessee conservation tag funds had been ripped off
because the legislature was designating much of the
money for the state art league and had not told anyone
what they were doing. They were funding the arts out of
conservation tag money !!
And, if I have always understood it, the money doesn't go
to TWRA. It goes to the general fund and TWRA can only
spend the interest off those funds on non-game wildlife.
That's the way I bought into it. Right or wrong. Is TWRA
really getting all the interest we have been earning for them
with our hard earned money? Or as the budget and financial management by
the legislature and the governor become
so tragic that they are giving the interest to the Society for
Political Correctness?
Who has got their hand in my billfold while I am blindfolded?
So what is the real story?
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
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