freecounterpoint: the benefits of taxation

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

in some cases, it ain't all bad.

Tecumseh said...: I'd say, let's put an extra 30% tax on any photograph sold in stores. After all, this is just a trinket for the rich, let them pay their fair share. And, if this hurts those doing business in this area, tough shit. Can't make a pinko omelet without breaking some eggs.; 4/01/2009 10:35 PM
Pepe le Pew said...: Well, it's not that arbitrary but if you can make an argument that art sales are a health nuisance with no redeeming benefits other than to the art dealers, and that they constitute a huge burden on the public health system, sounds good.; 4/02/2009 10:16 AM
Tecumseh said...: Why reduce everything to the financing of the health care system -- your obsession? I like to think locally, each issue on its merits. At any rate, artsy-fartsy photos are clearly a decadent bourgeois past time, with no redeeming social value or benefit. So they should be taxed to the hilt, and the proceeds redistributed to the masses. How's that for a perfect pinko solution? Nothing personal, just business. L'arroseur arrose, and all that jazz, old chap.; 4/02/2009 9:19 PM