"We need to raise your income tax, you make too much money."
"We need to raise the cigarette tax, so you won't smoke."
"We need to raise the alcohol tax, so you won't drink."
"We need to raise the junk-food tax, so you won't eat Big Macs and Twinkies."
"We need to raise the gas tax, so you won't drive so much."
"We need to put a tax on the number of miles you drive because you bought a car that gets good gas mileage, and we aren't getting enough from the gas tax."
"We need to 'temporarily' raise the sales tax............"
Where is it going to stop????? I think my head is going to explode!!!!
Time for a tea party.
"Where is it going to stop????? I think my head is going to explode!!!!"
don't forget the latest doozie.
"too many people have quit smoking! ! now we need another new tax to fund our pet project !! "
you know, they say they want to raise taxes to discourage smoking. then when people quit they are mad. but of course they are now "dependent" on that money . . /restart cycle.
argh.