[ale] [OT] cartoon on BP spill blame

[Jim Kinney]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Preston Boyington
<preston.lists at gmail.com>wrote:

> Michael Potter wrote:
> <snipped>
> > The government should just tax gas such that people will make better
> > choices for which cars they buy and which cars they drive.
>
> heh, 'they should force <thing i dislike> out of business/tax it to
> pieces!  that will show them!', but when it's something that near to
> your heart all you hear is 'they are taking away my freedom!  do you see
> how invasive they are!'
>

It's more of a "tax things that cause problems to both fund the cleanups and
discourage the use of the problem thing".

It's worked well on the discourage part for tobacco but the cleanup aspect
is, as per usualy, staffed by mental midgets and thus the funds go
elsewhere.


That's why a gas tax to fund development of alternate transportation methods
actually makes sense.

Too bad we can't tax stupid.


Oh. Lottery. forgot.

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