[Stefan Stackhouse]

Didn't Bastiat write a classic satire about the government deciding to tax sunshine?

Plus la change, plus la meme chose!

[supercat]

Didn't Bastiat write a classic satire about the government deciding to tax sunshine?

Well, I have read complaints about how the use of blacktop that absorbs sunlight contributes to global warning, so maybe the sunshine tax is not so implausible as you think.

[Madcelt]

I believe so, I also remember something wrote a couple of centuries ago about something similar with the Lords and Barons.

[Madcelt]

Hey easy now. My mind isn't that young anymore. I presume, you mean this Bastiat.

http://www.progress.org/fold203.htm