In regards to the current laws in Fl. regarding rocs. I have 3 issues with the law. I have personal religious objections to microchips in animals. Without going into details on that as it would involve putting religious debates on here where they have no place. I will just mention I have such objections to microchips and they are as welcome on my private property as ouija boards, tarot cards or regular playing cards for that matter and therefore choose not to keep such animals that require them.
I also have a serious problem with giving up rights afforded to me under the 4th amendment of the U.S. constitution protecting me from unreasonable search and seizure. In order to have an roc permit I must give up this right and allow access to my private property and personal residence at any time the fwc sees fit to come and inspect my cages. I am a private person who lives in a very rural area specifically so I can be left alone as do a lot of my neighbors. This would be the second reason for me choosing not to keep such animals. The third and final reason is that I am opposed to having to shell out $100 a year to keep MY private property. I pay enough friggin taxes as it is. My property tax is almost $2000 a year that is rent for what is supposed to be mine as far as I am concerned. In addition to that they have raised taxes on vehicle registration and drivers licenses. I pay tax on my gas, my food, my clothes and here in fl. they tax our homeownwners insurance and periodically hit us with "surcharges" to help fund their state home owner's insurance fund for rich people who insist on living in shoddily built houses right on the edge of the ocean and want everyone else to help us rebuild everytime a hurricane knocks down their over priced mexican built cardboard box.
It may only be a hundred dollars but it is another hundred dollars to me that could be much better spent on things I actually want rather than for the "privilege of having to allow some bureaucratic busybody access to my house whenever he see fit.
Last but not least as I said I don't need to run an experiment I already know the outcome from what I have already done personally in the last 15 yrs.

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