Three Simple Reaganite Ideas for the New Congress

The National Review ^ | December 31, 2010 | Deroy Murdock

[Cincinatus' Wife]

-- Republicans should enact the HOT Tax. The Higher-Rate Optional Tax would satisfy liberals who don’t like their taxes cut..... The HOT Tax would spare tax-cut opponents from accepting undesired tax relief. The rest of us can enjoy the lower taxes we need to pay our bills and take care of ourselves and our loved ones. Everybody wins. Republicans should ask congressional Democrats to support the HOT Tax. If they would deny guilty liberals the chance voluntarily to pay even higher taxes, let them vote accordingly........

--Republicans should introduce a measure to require that federally funded projects and structures be christened according to the Post Office’s rules regarding personalities on stamps. If one must be dead for ten years before gracing a stamp (save for deceased U.S. presidents, whose memorial stamps appear upon their first posthumous birthdays), one likewise should be lifeless for a decade before getting one’s name slapped on a federally financed highway, bridge, or warship....Public facilities that honor living, even sitting politicians — like South Carolina’s James E. Clyburn Golf Center and Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell Loop hiking trail – belong in North Korea, not America. This is a bipartisan embarrassment, especially when unhinged Democrats such as former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney of Georgia and jailed Republicans such as former congressman Robert Ney of Ohio have seen their names pried off of public works after they disgraced themselves....

--Republicans should re-legalize Thomas Edison’s light bulb. In one of his most shameful acts, Republican socialist G. W. Bush signed the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act......Americans already are hoarding Edison’s light bulbs — among mankind’s greatest inventions and, alongside Neil Armstrong’s Moonwalk, arguably the apotheosis of Yankee ingenuity. Washington, D.C., is killing these bulbs (and bulb-manufacturing jobs) to boost those swirly Compact Florescent Lamps. ...

[napscoordinator]

Please no amnesty. Let’s just keep it as one time in our history.

[goldstategop]

I’ve in favor of a line on the tax form allowing all good progressives to donate their income to the state. I doubt they will take advantage of it.

[Paladin2]

Bring back the heat ball.

[Paladin2]

I suggest a line where ‘rats can annually donate 10% of their gross assets, for the children.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“I suggest a line where ‘rats can annually donate 10% of their gross assets, for the children.”

You sexist pig. You forgot “for the women.” /s

[coloradan]

Is Reaganite the stuff that, if you hang a chunk of it around the neck of a progressive, he weakens and eventually dies?

[ProfoundMan]

I’ve in favor of a line on the tax form allowing all good progressives to donate their income to the state. I doubt they will take advantage of it.

I have a vague recollection that Huckabee (of all people) did this while governor. I think it made $600 extra dollars over his term.

The HOT tax idea is better though because it allows people to focus on the tax while being legislated and gives a catchy name to talk about later. I like the idea.

[PaleoBob]

Reaganite is actually more like Carbonite. If you happen to lose your mind (and everyone does at one time or another) it automatically kicks in and restores your sanity for you.

[Kenny500c]

The costs of administering this optional tax rate will far outweigh any revenue collected, so it will actually increase the budget deficit

[dread78645]

I’ve in favor of a line on the tax form ...

No form needed.

Just make your check payable to the Bureau of the Public Debt, and in the memo section, notate that it is a Gift to reduce the Debt Held by the Public.
Mail to:

Attn Dept G
Bureau Of the Public Debt
P. O. Box 2188
Parkersburg, WV 26106-2188

[scrabblehack]

I heard Mark Steyn review the 14 steps needed to properly dispose of a curly fry light bulb. I replaced one not too long ago — it was cracked, and had been so for weeks. I knew it was burned out but didn’t realize it was cracked.

I don’t know how dangerous the mercury vapors are though.

[snowtigger]

I don’t know how dangerous the mercury vapors are though.

The amount you will find in a CFL is PROBABLY harmless. However, I work with a man whose father was seperating gold from mercury.

This is usually done outside or in a controlled enclosure, as you boil the mercury off the gold. A lapse in judgement led him to do it in his garage.

Four agonizing days later he was dead. Once you are poisined to that degree, you are DEAD!

PS: I am one of those "heat ball" hoarders.