Jacho’s Blog-O-Rama

Apparenty because of a few site limitations, there will be no carry over from old blogs to new. No big loss there because blogs are usually out of date after two weeks anyway. Cool! that keeps stuff fresh! You can always comment about old stuff to start a new thread if you want, but this is not exactly the Las Vegas Review Journal, so who cares?

If we are going to discriminate against beer drinkers as the source of all Evil, and expect them to fund the treatment services for every meth head out there, let’s share the love. The Oregon wine industry has basically created themselves out of nothing in the last few years. I think the casual wine drinkers should have an opportunity to share in the treatment funding for the people that can’t say no. Let’s increase the tax on every bottle of Oregon wine by 1,900 percent as well. That’s fair, it’s all booze. Why single out the micro brews that have been able to carve out a niche in the economy?

 

So beer should be the sin of choice to fund treatment for all of the industries that we have made illegal, and thus cannot tax appropriately to fund their fair share? OK, so let’s legalize marijuana and set a nice healthy tax on it. Bingo! Tax revenue problem solved. An added benefit is that we will probably eliminate the need for about one fifth of the prison space, or we could use those beds for people that we would all really like to see behind bars for property crimes and such. I doubt very much that the increase in those that really want to puff a doobie would make the argument of those whiners about “Gateway” drugs come to fruition. Let’s find out. We can always re-criminalize it in two years if it doesn’t work. My understanding is that the Federal Government can’t prohibit it, they can only regulate it, and the State has the power to choose how that is done.

 

If nothing else, it would tone down some of the hate.

 

When was the last time we loooked at some other taxes that have not been raised in a while? Has grass seed seen an increase lately? Christmas trees seem to take a lot of acreage, 3 or 4 bucks per tree should be reasonable. Last time I was in a fast food restraunt there was a ridiculously obese person in fornt of me. I gotta believe the bag of tacos she was going to stuff in her mouth were going to cost me money when she finally goes down for long term medical care. I am probably already paying her bills through some form of welfare since I can’t see how on Earth she could hold any job other then Food Tester. Let’s jack up the tax per burger/taco/snack by 25 cents and see if we can’ t swim in tax revenue.

 

If our tax orgy criteria is simply luxuries that create burdens for the rest of us, we can look at a lot of other revenue streams.

 

We could do a child tax ala China from old. Unless you have a religious mandate (that I am sure is still valid 140 years after Brigham Young issued it, or 800 years after the Quoran listed the guidelines) you should really compensate the rest of us for your use of resources. I want an educated group of kids to be running this State when I am old and unable to participate. That is not going to happen if we can’t fund the system correctly, and overburdening families and others from out of State that don’t pay their fair share are hurting that.

 

I have noticed that a certain percentage of the people that returns cans/bottles are persons that appear to me to be in need of treatment services that would be funded with the 1,900 percent increase in the beer tax. Either they are persons that are fairly obviously members of the homeless community that are often also in need of the treatment services, or they have large quantities of beer cans/bottles to return, so they must also be consumers unless they found the truck full of bottles in the parking lot on their way into the store. There also appear to be a lot of people consuming unhealthy beverages with high sugar/Phenylalanine content that should contribute to the Tax-O-Rama. Let’s just raise the deposit on every kind of container to 25 cents.

 

  

 

 

 

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