Again from Drudge:
LONDON (Reuters) - A "fat tax" on salty, sugary and fatty foods could save thousands of lives each year, according to a study published on Thursday.
According to a study I just made of my navel, a Dumb Tax wouldn't save a single life, but would wipe out the Federal deficit, and cut serious inroads into the National Debt.
Speaking of which, the current debt is 8.8 trillion dollars. With the estimated population of the United States at roughly 302,413,053, give or take an abortion, each citizen's share of this debt is $29,346.03. And you just know that your brother-in-law Greg, and your Uncle Sid and his wife and five kids are NEVER going to put up their shares. So it's me and you, buddy. (F'ing Kat doesn't have to pay a dime because she's North of the Border.)
It's such a drop in the bucket, but still... The National Debt has, since late 2006, continued to increase an average of $1.28 billion per day.
You know how you're branded a total loser if you accumulate a lot of credit card debt and then only make the minimum monthly payments? And it does make you a financial loser, no matter how many push-ups you can do or how many women think you're cute. So what does it make the USA, since that's all we do, is make the minimum payments and we even borrow more money so we can make those mounting minimum payments and still buy things we don't need!
The solution: Don't vote in November of 2008. Don't send ANYONE to your local town council, your state capitol or Washington D.C. Let the salaried bureaucrats carry on for four years without a President/Commander-in-Chief or a sitting congress. The savings will enormous and the economy would boom like you wouldn't believe.
I'm perfectly serious...
But to get back to my original thesis on this topic: dumb people abound. According to the Guv'nor, there are even rich dumb people. (Some day I'll tell you about dating the USC Alum, lad Scion, rich like I never believed, who wanted me to go with her to Peru to help her catch a Alpaca-Llama, for a private zoo a friend of hers had. I only mention her in support of the Guv'nor's point.) If dumb people had to pay a fine every time they did something dumb, our grandchildren would reach maturity in a world where our tax dollars could afford Universal Sex. And Universal Health, too.
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You had doubts there are dumb rich people? Just look at the Hiltons. They could wipe out half the debt in less than a week.
I'm fully in support of the dumb tax, but conversely, would there be significant tax breaks for smart people? It might be an incentive for people to stay in school....
Having attended no less than 7 colleges and universities, I can attest to the fact that schools aren't exactly havens for the intelligent. I remember an argument in a Shakespeare class where a young sorority lass argued that King Lear seemed more of a comedy than a tragedy to her.
I cleared her up by yelling, "When almost all of the characters in something die, tragedy is generally the safer bet!"
I don't think she got it, even then.
There are many constants in life: men never get enough sex; PAD never gets enough alcohol or cake; T doesn't play enough golf; Bert plays too much; the National Debt will always increase; and we will always live with it.
PAD - I suggest that not only was Miss YSL stupid, but she probably didn't read the play. OR, sometimes "A Midsummer's..." sounds just like "King Lear", -in Cliffs Notes.
Kat'Dion, it makes sense that the smarter you are, the less you would pay in taxes, since this simply recognizes an already existing phenomenon.
Pistolero, maybe she was one of those truly brave people who laugh at death?
Big T, you do make a point with your list of Eternal Truths, but I just don't want to accept that an always increasing national debt is one of them. Which is why I am contemplating using my powers to create a Do Nothing Party. The DNP would be dedicated to, one step at a time, eliminating nonessential government agencies. It would take a ruthlessness worthy of the IRS, but obviously it could be done.
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