Posted on 04/12/2008 5:09:14 AM PDT by moneyrunner
Here's a modest suggestion for improving the roads in and around the Hampton Roads area. And it's an idea that I'm sure will appeal to the cracked staff at the local papers who are constantly advocating one tax after another to pay for our road construction program.
My brilliant idea: A sales tax on the Virginian Pilot.
Ta...daaaaa!
Now before you click away from this page let's run the numbers. The Virginian Pilot has a paid daily circulation of about 200,000. Let's say that a sales tax of 50 cents per paper is imposed. That would bring in over $36 million dollars a year! That's more than $3.5 billion over ten years!
Who could possibly object?
Wouldn't you pay an extra 50 cents a day to line your birdcage or wrap your fish?
Say YES!
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I have another idea. Use prison inmates and put them to work repairing roads and bridges rather than being useless members of society. The chain gangs did much good and taught criminals that working is better than jail.
I know, I know, it just would not be faaiirr.
Be hard to get road construction firms to agree, not mention unions
lol brilliant!
How about a tax on being a politician? You have to wear a red P stitched to all your clothes, and whenever you make any kind of transaction, it’s doubled. Tolls, groceries, drivers license fees, movie tickets, gas, houses, etc.
Also, people can throw rotten vegetables at you with impunity. Oh, and you have to use separate toilet facilities and water fountains than the general public.
[Be hard to get road construction firms to agree, not mention unions]
And so the roads and bridges will continue to get worse and worse while the money hogs buy off the politicians who refuse to use a good workforce to improve America.
American bridges falling down while the pols, unions and taxpayers do nothing but complain.
Outstanding idea!!
Also some of the revenue from the proposed tax could be used to plant trees to replace those wasted on making The Virginian Pilot- (Save the trees!).
And what about all the green house emissions generated in delivering this glorified fish wrap.
I agree with you, but someone elected these boobs and we are stuck with them
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