You people are comedians if you believe a $5/head tax on a business, that not a single one of you would willingly live next door to, is the bloody end of the world.
I finance your parents retirement, I pay all their medical bills, I pay for any emergency medical service your family needs and I pay for the U.S. military. Who am I?
I am a U.S. INCOME tax payer.
I never agreed with ANY of these outrageous taxes on my income, except for the U.S. military. Nor did the Constitution dictate that I would be charged to pay for these services of others (except the military).
If the state wants to raise additional revenue by taxing a business I’ll never ever go to, so be it. Better that than taking out of my paycheck to begin with.
Has a single one of you who think I’m nuts ever lived next to one of these businesses? I have. I defy you to live 3 months near one of these businesses and then come back and lecture me about what can and cannot be taxed.
Furthermore, not a single one of you who disagree with my stated position can point to the U.S.Constitution and show that Texas is not allowed to place this tax. They can, take it up with Jefferson if you don’t like people of conviction. Texas doesn’t care what we all think.
There’s nothing in the Constitution about a $10,000 tax of people with the FR handle of Diplomat either. Does it make it right? Just where does this nany-state crap end?