As Kentucky's grand idea to save state spending programs with higher tobacco taxes fizzles out, some might find satisfaction that state lawmakers elsewhere are catching hell for wacky ideas to keep themselves on the gravy train.
A Georgia state senator says he will file a bill to charge a five dollar state cover charge for everyone who enters an "adult entertainment" nightclub. The same tax was found unconstitutional last spring in Texas, so this shouldn't be a very long conversation, either.
One funny thing is the eerily similar rhetoric to ours about the cigarette tax:
""Strip clubs perpetuate (the notion) that women are for sale" and "we want the money to come back to the people it could potentially harm.""
What would they do if men stopped going to clubs and paying that tax? That and hoping people keep smoking so we can bring in enough money to fund smoking cessation and health programs makes as much sense as funding government operations with a murder tax.
Just concentrate on cutting spending, guys.
2 comments:
Sin taxes are not the way to go.
But neither is concentrating "on cutting spending." That's the typical Republican conservative formula for a failed economic system. Plus, it's a repudiation of American ideals and values.
Government spending is what's required to stimulate the economy--not tax cuts.
What's needed is an American values tax program known as proportional. Of course that smacks of fairness, and that's the last things Republicans conservatives want. However, as Alexander Hamilton put it in Federalist Paper 12:
"The ability of a country to pay taxes must always be proportioned, in a great degree, to the quantity of money in circulation, and to the celerity with which it circulates. Commerce, contributing to both these objects, must of necessity render the payment of taxes easier, and facilitate the requisite supplies to the treasury."
Now there's an American value that Republicans loathe and detest.
Well did John Stuart Mill say, "Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."
FDR had a similar comment to make about conservatives. He said, "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward."
Clearly, the conservative theme song is:
Backward, turn backward
Oh time in thy flight!
The future's unpleasant,
The present's unbright.
So let's turn our attention
On the Wing Nut Right!
Hempy, please.
Your pointless comments are often little more than spam. It would be great if you could limit your comments to criticism of the post in question and leave the poetry and the centuries-old cut and paste jobs out.
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