So now it has been revealed that Jon Gruber proposed even more social engineering by taxing things he doesn’t like, namely plus-sized people. Well, I can be a social engineer too. I’ve got some things I’d like to levy an exorbitant tax on as well:
- Ivory towers
- Liberal guilt
- Science! mingled with politics
- Diet soda
- Solar power
- Hippies (taxes can be waived if they agree to a properly administered punching)
- Government subsidies
- Carbon credits
- Windmills
- Hipsters
- Organic food
- Unions
- Signing up at Healthcare.gov
- Seattle
- Endangered species
- Politicians
- Knee jerk accusations of racism
- Bureaucrats
- Journalists (taxed by the lie)
- The Screen Actors’ Guild
- Abortions
- Turkey bacon
- Atheists
- Degrees that don’t prepare students for careers
- Illegal aliens
- Social engineers
- Voting present
- Voting to raise taxes
- Narcissists with a Messiah complex
Regarding hippies, should include a bath as well…with soap.
Some additional taxes to include…
– Snur (navel lint)
– Lawyers
– Race Cards (credit when bought by the pack)
– Dog adoptions (might dissuade nefarious use of the process)
Lactose, you’re spot on about Seattle. I’d like to suggest that the following items there need to be individually taxed, as well:
* Bicycle paths
* Garbage police
* Non-synchronized traffic lights.
* All female drivers.
* Anyone driving a Prius.
* The Socialist Seattle City Council
* The Seattle Seabirds (aka, the throw-it-away “Seahawks”)
* Anyone who voted for Obama
* Seattle’s infernal rain
People who use air quotes, say the word “hashtag” before a description, or say “LOL” in conversation.
Penalties disguised as taxes. (Sorry, Your Honor, I don’t understand recursive. That’s just retarded.)
So, once you tax fat people (half of whom “buy” their food with…taxes) to the point that they aren’t fat (yeah, that’ll happen) and the government is addicted to the taxes, you then tax skinny people to make them fat again, right? Makes as much sense as anything else this a’hole says. I drive past his house fairly often, it’s way bigger than anyone’s house needs to be, I think he needs some fat people to move in and then he can monitor their progress.
That’s what being a
progressivecommunist is all about, right?http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/83-Pleasant-St-Lexington-MA-02421/56487922_zpid/
I don’t think you will get much tax revenue from “Signing up at Healthcare.gov”. Has anyone actually accomplished that yet?
@6 It’s not about the revenues, its about getting people to do what I want. Make the tax so high no one can afford to sign up, even if they could, and starve the beast. What if we threw a national healthcare plan and nobody showed up?
Tax news show hosts who say, ” We only have a minute left,” and proceed to ask a fifty-minute question of a panelist, with plenty of pauses.
@5 Oh my. Is there any way you can come up with a way to use that land that would tempt MA to take his home by eminent domain?
@9 there is a big farm right down the street where all the yuppy liberals go (including Heir Gruber and his wife Eva I’m sure) to the point of causing traffic jams. Much like their customers who use illegals to clean their toilets, the farm has many many migrant workers who probably get paid $5/hr. They could put at least 100 of them in that house, then they wouldn’t have to take the bus back to the shadows where they live, which sure ain’t in Lexington.
It’s amazing how the celebrants of diversity don’t complain that even though the prices at the farm are astronomical and the guy that owns it lives in a mansion right across the street they hire illegals to do all the dirty work. You know, kinda like…slave owners.