Texas politician proposes 50 percent game tax

Gamespot ^ | January 25th, 2006 | Tor Thorsen

[Dallas59]

I don't like Perry....

[1FASTGLOCK45]

How about a 100% Tax on you if your a RHINO, bleeding heart liberal, 200% Tax if your a liberal "activist" plus they take away your house,
10 years in prison if your a governmint official that does not please us conservative. :)

[Mr. Brightside]

a $10,000 per-abortion tax on medical clinics that perform abortions and a 10 percent tax on all sodas containing sugar and a 50 percent tax on "violent video games."

He figures that these three things will replace property taxes?

Abortions will stop in Texas. Not a bad thing, but it will not be a source of revenue.

And that leave all of the property tax revenue to be replaced by a levy on coke and video games?

The rightness and wrongness of his proposal aside, I think he's nuts.

[M203M4]

Wow. Sounds like a wannabe dictator. No grasp of economics either.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Not all crackpots are RAT.

[justshutupandtakeit]

If she is as dim a bulb as her son Perry will win easily.

[RandallFlagg]

Told-ya-so-PING!

[Richard Kimball]

Texas has a long history of nutballs running for office on a platform that sounds like it was put together by three guys smoking dope and listening to Stairway to Heaven. We've got two this time. This guy and Kinky Friedman.

[Gabz]

But at least Kinky has a sense of humor.........

[Eaker]

who is running as an Independant, but is really a Republican. It's gonna be interesting.

She is no Republican and is more of a Rhino than Perry.

If democrats ran Texas politics she would be a donkey.

Actually listen to the next Ann Richards wantabe. She bitches and moans but offers no solutions.

I would vote for this idiot before I would vote for her.

[Richard Kimball]

Yeah, I met her a couple of times when I worked for Austin Fire. She's a pleasant lady, but was the mayor of Austin, and was a Democrat at the time. I'm surprised she's risen this far. She switched to the Republican side of the aisle when she went statewide, as outside of Austin the valley, and inner city Houston and Dallas, being a Democrat in Texas is almost political suicide.

[deport]

My guess it you just gave ol' Locke the most publicity he'll receive during the remainer of his fruitless attempt.

His proposals smell like the came from the feedlot at his ranch... jmo of course.

[TexanByBirth]

Sounds like Hillary Clinton to me!

[MD_Willington_1976]

$10,000 per-abortion tax on medical clinics that perform abortions

Will be paid for with tax payer money, and every rights organization will scream over this...

10 percent tax on all sodas containing sugar

Haha good luck, all the corn growers & ADM will shoot that one down...

50 percent tax on "violent video games."

Define violent video game, Super Mario gets pretty violent stomping on turtles...


! EMPTY WORDS FEEL FOR GOOD LEGISLATION !

[absolootezer0]

Abortions will stop in Texas. Not a bad thing, but it will not be a source of revenue.

there, my friend, you are wrong. people will find ways to do it, and most likely, find ways to pass on the costs to the rest of you. just like they do with everything else. hospital/ doctor fees will go up, causing insurance payments to go up... like any kind of tax, the effects will be far reaching and cost the upper and middle classes more money.

[Mr. Brightside]

I think a $10,000 tax PER ABORTION would be a pretty strong deterrant to abortions in Texas.

For $10,000, you could have a lavish week long Las Vegas abortion vacation.

Why have one done in Texas?

[mysterio]

But, but.... The GOP is for smaller, less intrusive government!

Looks like smokers were right. Whose habit is up next?

[jmc813]

"I take the position that the Founding Fathers took: that the power to tax is the power to destroy," he told the Amarillo Globe News. "So our concept is that we need to tax things we don't want and you want to not tax things that you want to encourage."

This dude has a seriously perverted view of the Founding Fathers.

[absolootezer0]

i'd guess they'll end up going across the border but leave all the follow-up work to medical centers in TX.. that and there would probably be a bunch of back-room abortion doctors that botch the job and, again, they'll end up in medical centers in TX.
i'd also like to know how he would deal with "life of mother" situations..