The State of Pennsylvania will be voting on a piece of legislation regarding 'hobby metal detecting' on Monday, April 15th, in Harrisburg, at the State Capital, and it many Legislators from other states will be taking notice. Rumor has it that other States have already pre-drawn up similar drafts, but are waiting to see how the Pennsylvania vote goes. The Legislation act nicknamed the 'MDetect-925 Act' pretty much states as follows...
---Pennsylvania detectorist will have fees and regulations to metal detect as of 2014, if THIS IS VOTED IN! And I am sure MANY STATES WILL FOLLOW!--- THIS IS URGENT! PLEASE READ!
1st... there is a State fee called a 'FREQUENCY TRANSMISSION COMPENSATION FEE'. You have to pay it to the State if your detector has a coil on it. A coil that sends signals into the ground. My local Senator said that the 'money goes to fund the recovery of earth worms, meal worms, grubs, or any other local underground dwelling creature that are found to be harmed/proved by sending detecting waves into the ground from a metal detector's frequency'.
2nd... there is a State fee called the 'DETECTING TRANSPORTATION FEE'. It is a fee you pay because as you walk around swinging your detector, the State Government says you are transporting your detector, hence the fee for transportation. To avoid the fee, you must not be carrying your detector on person.
3rd... There is a Local tax called the 'SITE EXCAVATION TAX'. It is a prepaid tax you pay to the local municipaility you will be hunting in. The prepaid tax goes to the Local Government to hold in a State drawn account. It is for the chance you injure yourself while digging your plug/cut. If injured, the prepaid tax goes to the local hospital you will probably be frequenting. If you are not injured, the prepaid tax is kept by the Local Government to fund the future 'Safe Digging' class that detectorists will be required to take, and the 'Safe Digging' class will also have it's own fee, in addition.
4th... There is a State fee that pays into a fund called the 'CLAD DISTRIBUTION FUND'. This fee goes into a fund to offset the clad coins that detectorists remove from the ground and put back into circulation into the US market. The State realizes that there is a remote chance clad coins can upend the market and cause a direct impact on inflation-or-deflation of the monetary system, so the fee covers any adjustments to the local market that may need re-adjusting, since metal detectorists can cause such unplanned swings in the money market unconditionally.
5th... There is a Local fee called the 'FINDS ROYALTY FEE'. This fee paid to the Local Municipality that you will be detecting in, to account for the treasure you will be removing from their grounds. The Local Municipalities have deemed the tax automatic on all detectorists, since most detectorists/citizens are predetermined to be dishonest and will not report all finds, so a royalty tax has been imposed and will be justly paid.
So what do you think?
Think it will pass?
Can you see this actually happen?
Would you ever think that such insanity would ever be suggested?
At any point reading this, do you ever think that this could be seriously done?
Have you ever heard similar insanity suggested?
Would any Government even care about a hobby like ours?
Would a Government try and bilk us because they knew we would just pay it easily and not even object or question the common sense to any of it other than a desperate 'moneygrab'?
.............This is just a joke! I just wrote this as an.... April Fool's joke, and to also mock the bogus and stupid legislation brought by desperate and dumb politicians at all levels of any Government. I always wondered if they knew they were laughed at(?)
---Pennsylvania detectorist will have fees and regulations to metal detect as of 2014, if THIS IS VOTED IN! And I am sure MANY STATES WILL FOLLOW!--- THIS IS URGENT! PLEASE READ!
1st... there is a State fee called a 'FREQUENCY TRANSMISSION COMPENSATION FEE'. You have to pay it to the State if your detector has a coil on it. A coil that sends signals into the ground. My local Senator said that the 'money goes to fund the recovery of earth worms, meal worms, grubs, or any other local underground dwelling creature that are found to be harmed/proved by sending detecting waves into the ground from a metal detector's frequency'.
2nd... there is a State fee called the 'DETECTING TRANSPORTATION FEE'. It is a fee you pay because as you walk around swinging your detector, the State Government says you are transporting your detector, hence the fee for transportation. To avoid the fee, you must not be carrying your detector on person.
3rd... There is a Local tax called the 'SITE EXCAVATION TAX'. It is a prepaid tax you pay to the local municipaility you will be hunting in. The prepaid tax goes to the Local Government to hold in a State drawn account. It is for the chance you injure yourself while digging your plug/cut. If injured, the prepaid tax goes to the local hospital you will probably be frequenting. If you are not injured, the prepaid tax is kept by the Local Government to fund the future 'Safe Digging' class that detectorists will be required to take, and the 'Safe Digging' class will also have it's own fee, in addition.
4th... There is a State fee that pays into a fund called the 'CLAD DISTRIBUTION FUND'. This fee goes into a fund to offset the clad coins that detectorists remove from the ground and put back into circulation into the US market. The State realizes that there is a remote chance clad coins can upend the market and cause a direct impact on inflation-or-deflation of the monetary system, so the fee covers any adjustments to the local market that may need re-adjusting, since metal detectorists can cause such unplanned swings in the money market unconditionally.
5th... There is a Local fee called the 'FINDS ROYALTY FEE'. This fee paid to the Local Municipality that you will be detecting in, to account for the treasure you will be removing from their grounds. The Local Municipalities have deemed the tax automatic on all detectorists, since most detectorists/citizens are predetermined to be dishonest and will not report all finds, so a royalty tax has been imposed and will be justly paid.
So what do you think?
Think it will pass?
Can you see this actually happen?
Would you ever think that such insanity would ever be suggested?
At any point reading this, do you ever think that this could be seriously done?
Have you ever heard similar insanity suggested?
Would any Government even care about a hobby like ours?
Would a Government try and bilk us because they knew we would just pay it easily and not even object or question the common sense to any of it other than a desperate 'moneygrab'?
.............This is just a joke! I just wrote this as an.... April Fool's joke, and to also mock the bogus and stupid legislation brought by desperate and dumb politicians at all levels of any Government. I always wondered if they knew they were laughed at(?)
