There are a few errands I have to run this morning, the first stop will be at the tanning salon to cancel my membership. I’m not willing to pay the 10% Pelosi tax to fund a bill I despise and I’m totally irate that those morons in Washington are causing me to give up one of the few affordable luxuries I indulge in every Spring solely for myself. Slipping my tan legs into a pair of shorts come April makes me feel good.
In the spirit of my cranky mood, I bring you two clips of Dan Mitchell holding forth, in a most eloquent fashion, on the gross stupidity and fiscal irresponsibility of those nebby fuck trumpets in Congress. Dan blogs at International Liberty if you’re inclined to pay him a visit.
English cleryman and essayist Sydney Smith (d. 1841)-
The schoolboy whips his taxed top, the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven percent, flings himself back in his chinz bed, which has paid twenty-two percent, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a licence of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death.
They didn’t have tanning salons then, but I’d be shocked if they didn’t tax them now. Great link, Daphne.
BTW, I haves just been alerted to the fact that you are a victim of racial taxing.
Irony Deficiency: C-Span had a clip this morning of Pelosi berating the Teabaggers for using the language of Biden, Cheney and Emmanuel.
How so, James? Are they finally going to give the white man a break for being melanin deficient?
I’m glad you liked it.
Bill, Pelosi ought to have her lips sutured shut. That woman gets on my very last nerve.
Tanning booth taxes will help pay for their skin cancer treatments. Same as cigarettes. Get over it.
Why not tax local tv newscasts for every question they ask us, or tease us about five upcoming weather snippets that are simply repeating temperatures of all local towns, or self-promoting announcement for their 5am telecasts, , which have no new news that wasn’t already broadcast at 11pm, or for their website that includes non-newsworthy facebook friends?
The local TV weathermen now speak more words in an hour of local news than do the newscasters. Every instance of the above infractions should be a $100 fine for not reporting news.
“Slipping my tan legs into a pair of shorts come April makes me feel good.”
Couldn’t you apply for, say, a Federal grant? Because God knows this improves the environment, at least in your hometown.
RJ,
I suppose your take on sin taxes is a perfectly reasonable and consistent position to take if you believe in the collective good being entirely cared for by centralized government and taxpayer dollars.
It’s also quite reasonable if you assume that all adults are fundamentally irresponsible, should be stripped of their autonomy and essentially robbed by the government to fund their statist goals of reducing the population to nothing more than puling children begging for their daily bowl of gruel.
I, on the other hand, don’t buy into any of that bullshit or misery.
Just curious, would you be in favor of allowing people who can show proof of insurance to be exempt from those taxes?
CG, a big kiss for you.
It’s true, I do have a stunning pair of legs. ;-)
Irksome Middle lives for tanning. She will be upset to know this. I would prefer her artificial method of tanning to going out into the backyard only to be ogled by the perv who walks by with his dog every day…looking, looking…for children…..uugggggh.
She tells me that tanning makes her actually feel good. Since I only freckle and burn, I have to take her word for it. She seems much happier with high doses of vitamin D delivered by UV ray guns instead of the glass of skim milk.
Pop the perv with a paintball gun, that’ll fix his crooked wagon.
I feel better when I’m golden, but that maybe an unimportant signifier because I always feel better when I spend more time outdoors.
I’m not an inside person. I don’t like being cooped up by bad weather and I dislike air conditioning. My husband hates it when he comes home from work in July and all the windows are open and every ceiling fan is whirring away full speed. He has a point, it being ninety degrees inside, but I love it.
Daphne,
Thanks for the plug. I’m getting lots of feedback.
You’re welcome, Dan.
I wish I could half the country reading your words.
Thank you for this. It in nice indeed to run across such a cogent synthesis of the current state of affairs.
I wrote a note to Tony Blankley several years ago telling him he was too good for PBS. (McLaughlin Report) I am so happy to see this. Mr. Mitchell deserves our greatest approbation. It’s a good fight with people like that on our side.
Hoorah!!!!!!
RJ might as well have said, “Taxes on Crap will pay for Colon Cancer.”
Doctors cure cancer. Pharma cures cancer.
Who becomes a doctor and why? Who are the best doctors and why?
Who does pharma and why do they do it?
Will taxes make better doctors or better pharma?
How will you pay for anything if there are no good doctors or good pharma?
No thinking, rational being works for long for thugs.
So in the end, RJ was like a child who thinks food falls out of the sky and into his mouth like bird shit.
While grammatically correct and eminently civilized, his utterance was as foolish as, “This sentence is false.”
Austin, have you read The Anatomy Of The State by Murray Rothbard?
No thinking, rational being works for long for thugs.
That made me think of it.
I read a lot of Rothbard when I was 17. He is great. I also read most of Bill Buckley’s non-fiction about that time and still love his books. Shortly after that I was given Atlas Shrugged.
I really like Isabel Paterson’s “God of the Machine.”
I think that the key to the solution to our problem lies in Barone’s recent book, “Our First Revolution,” about the abdication of James II, essentially a foreign, Catholic King, by the Protestant English elites and parliament. James II kept abrogating the customary English freedoms and tried to impose a Spanish state upon a free people. Once James II was forced out, Parliament and the new King reached an agreement that set the stage for England’s explosive growth until WWII.
Obama is not an American. He grew up in Indonesia under a mother steeped in Communist ideology and has lived under the influence of America haters all his life. He is essentially trying to pull a James II on the USA. As his mistakes accumulate, he will lose moral authority and then the opportunity exists to do something truly radical – a restatement of American values and a national rebirth.
This book also hints at this as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generations_%28book%29
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