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Originally Posted by GT-0733
it's pretty hard to chill out when government has so much control over what you want/need.
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and that's the thing isn't.
I have no problem with the government controlling things that need to be controlled, but when they start mandating how big your toilet flush can be, and how I use the water from my own bore, and how many cm I encroach the footpath with my car, then I reckon they've lost the plot.
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Originally Posted by GT-0733
we are born in a country where government tries to get every last cent from you for those trivial things and employs thugs to do it. this turns ordinary citizens into fine payers and criminals.
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yep, I got a $160 fine the other day, because Tied up with the engines off in MY pen at a private marina, my boat is deemed to be "operating in Navigable Waters."