“No good deed goes unpunished” especially if the government gets wind of it, and decides that your good deed needs to be taxed and regulated because, well, government.
This makes me feel physically ill. The person who proposed this needs to GO.
From The Federalist Papers:
I don’t know which is worse; that the government wants to regulate the heroic “Cajun Navy” after the rescued countless people from the Louisiana flooding, or that it’s a Republican whose behind it.
Rather than an award, or plaque or other expression of gratitude from the state, one lawmaker has decided that the all-volunteer group of Good Samaritans who patrolled the flooded landscape rescuing people needs to be regulated.
Cajun Navy member Dustin Clouatre of St. Amant said he hopped into his pleasure skiff and with others, cleared out entire neighborhoods under water.
“For the most part, these people are not going to wait for assistance,” Clouatre said. “They’re doers.”
But Republican State Sen. Jonathan “J.P.” Perry told WWL-TV he is working on a bill that could require training, certificates and a permit fee to allow the “Cajun Navy” to get past law enforcement into flooded areas.
Alrighty Louisiana, you know what you have to do. It’s impossible to imagine a world where men who are putting their lives on the line to save their neighbors are deserving some fee or tax. This will NOT happen in America.