[C320-list] Recent traffic

[John Meyers]

When the demand for boats and boating goes down so does the price of
boats and boating, theoretically. Eventually there will be a point of
equilibrium where the cost of boating will meet the demand of the younger
generation - theoretically.

I am happy that I have a 320 and can afford to keep and use her. (It goes
on the hard this Saturday and I am not happy with that but did have a happy
summer.)

John Meyers
Wind Chime #406
Muskegon, MI

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Rick Sonntag <c250 at ricksonntag.com> wrote:

> I think the decline of sailing's popularity parallels that of golf. Both
> hobbies draw from a similar demographic, and that demographic is "aging
> out" of the sport without any significant replenishment from the younger
> generation. The reasons for the lack of replenishment are numerous, from
> the widely observed decline of the middle class to the fragmentation of the
> market for other competing leisure activities (there are now far more
> options including health clubs, higher participation of youth in scheduled
> activities, thousands of cable channels, millions of options for digital
> content of all types).
>
> ​The claim that middle class economic woes are caused by ​growth in taxes
> in the US is not supported by the facts. US Federal taxes as a % of GDP are
> about where they were in the 1960s and 1970s, and have come down
> significantly since the late 1990s. And the economy in the late 1990s, when
> taxes as % of GDP were highest, is one that many would love to have today.
> See the "Totals" column at
> http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=205 .
>