Reply #2: Arnie is going with the flow. The trend is "tax ANYONE who has x amount of dollars". [View All]

[cherokeeprogressive]

Hmmm. Let me see... Golf? Rich fucking white guys! Hello?

Auto repairs? I could go either way on this one. Honestly. I was taught to fix things. From the time I was a kid with my first car. When something broke, I'd get a few bucks from my Dad on Friday, with the caveat that if the part was less than what he gave me, I'd give back the balance. Between his toolbox and my Grandfather's, there was every tool I needed to fix a 67 Mustang. After that I fixed airplanes in the Navy. I'm in the fix it yourself crowd. So, long story short, if you must have someone fix it for you, there should be a tax. A tax that somehow shields the mechanic from your affluence, or reluctance to fix it yourself.

Veterinary care is an easy tax because a large number of folks think that humans shouldn't keep animals as pets in the first place so your pet should be taxed as would any other luxury not available to the workaday masses. Lots of people couldn't afford pets even if they wanted them. And some, if they could afford pets, couldn't afford the space needed for an animal to exist comfortably. Tax 'em.

Amusement parks? Rich people on vacation! Hello?

Sporting events? Wellllll there are lots of reasons to tax sporting events. Take NASCAR for instance! Hello?

Furniture repairs SHOULD DEFINITELY NOT BE TAXED. Every night, I put stuff, whether it be a cocktail, newspaper, beer, meal or even a novel on a coffee table that comes from my Grandparent's house. It's the last piece of furniture that exists from those heady days when a child thinks life is wonderful, and that child was me. Bitchin' furniture it was, too, believe that.

Appliances should definitely be taxed. How many people here remember the pre-microwave oven days? Our first GE microwave boiled water, baked potatoes, and cooked bacon in a special holder. Other than that? Yeah... uh... um... okay. I coulda bought a cool home audio system for what my parents paid for it. Add to that a pair of Levi's for what they paid for an electric can opener, PLUS a pair of Van's tennis shoes. That last part can only be understood by people who grew up in So. Cal.

"American Consumerism" is the bane of the planet. I've read that a hundred, nay, a thousand times. So now we're faced with if not the end, then a decades long pause in "American Consumerism". And guess what? People are shitting their pants over it, all over the fucking world. What intelligence is there to be gained from that? "American Consumerism" drives the price of every commodity in our solar system. Think about it. Argue that I'm mistaken on that point.

What comes next? Believe it or not, the thing that will be the saving grace for the United States of America will be the sheer width and breadth of it's territory. I have the COOLEST picture of me standing next to a sign that says "Next Gas 100 Miles", taken 12/27. Our abundance of land is going to be what brings this country out of its doldrums.

I propose that every native born American citizen as of today's date be given a certain amount of land to be determined by the amount of land to be found within the contiguous states and Alaska that belongs to the government, minus game preserves, as well as national and state parks divided by the number of persons eligible.

Give this land to the people who live on it. THEN we can start working toward a socialistic way of living. EVERY person has to have the same stake in what can be considered the sum total of U.S. land. Give every person who stands on this soil a piece of it, and let him/her do what they want with it past that moment.

Whoa. Did I wander from the point of the OP or what?