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Internet Tax Approved By Louisiana House
Stinky Litter Box writes "WWL-TV in New Orleans reports that the Louisiana House voted 81-9 on Thursday to propose that a '15-cent monthly surcharge should be levied on Internet access across Louisiana to fight online criminal activity.' Can you say 'slippery slope?' The good news is that Gov. Jindal opposes such a tax. Full disclosure: I grew up in south Louisiana and worked for WWL-TV in the late '70s."
wtf did i just read :(
Posts not to be taken literally. Almost everything is sarcasm.
So you're saying that your anti-children?
His anti-children what?
On a similar note, I accidentally a bottle of coke. Is that bad?
There are more than two parties. The fact that you (Americans) only vote for one of those two doesn't mean that the others don't exist.
I see your point though, and it validates mine. You should vote outside of your bi-partisan system. It's not a wasted vote if everyone else realises this.
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Intelligence is knowing that both the Republicans and Democrats fit the corporationist demographic.
Wisdom is knowing that there are more than those two parties.
Please, help your countrymen become more wise.
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You should vote outside of your bi-partisan system. It's not a wasted vote if everyone else realises this.
That's what I keep telling people. Unfortunately most people have bought the "wasted vote" lie hook, line and sinker. Last election I managed to successfully convince quite a few people that their ideal candidate was either Cynthia McKinney(G), Bob Barr(L), Ron Paul(L masquerading as R) or Dennis Kucinich(G or S masquerading as D). Some even said they plan on voting for such, but later told me that they didn't want their vote to be wasted. Many were convinced that a vote for McKinney was a vote for McCain and a vote for Barr was a vote for Obama. Therein lies the crux of the matter. People SEE the feedback loop that keeps our duopoly in power, but their response to it is to feed it further, as not to miss the bandwagon.
I myself ended up offering my vote up to the malignant gods of political maneuvering when I voted McKinney. I would rather have voted Kucinich, but I gave my vote to the Greens in order to strengthen a 3rd party. It wasn't all that bad though, as I believe I would have been pleased by a McKinney administration.
Well, you're not going to get much sympathy out of me, nor me from you, I think, because I am so very far left of left on this issue. I would like to see major reforms on the issue of property ownership, largely eliminating it and replacing it with a system of land stewardship focused on rehabilitation. Only small plots of land would be relatively unaffected — aside from increases in property taxes, but again, income taxes must decrease or be eliminated for such a system to operate... and we all know how complicated that situation is already without trying to change fundamental ideas related to property.
One solution to your problem which would work today is to assess property taxes based on the purpose to which the land is put; specifically, the taxes are increased if the property is rented, used as a business, if hazardous chemicals are stored or used there, and so on.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"