OK so I and my recent proposal about taxing Games of Mass Destruction have been called stupid on this site. Well I haven’t been engaged in ad hominem attacks in quite a while so I am not going to start here. You disagree with my proposal? Fine come up with your own that doesn’t adhere to the same wrote dogma of the right! Everyone that I have proposed this War Games Tax to loves it from the right and the left. It might not be your cup of tea but it took a bit of research to concoct. Stupid is not the word I would use for it if I disagreed with it or the person that came up with it. Rather I would resort to words like overreaching, excessive, or counterproductive. It could reasonably be called one of these words but STUPID? I am pretty sure that it is not stupid. HOWEVER, here is what is STUPID and again I speak of the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) that a Republican AND a General feared in exiting The White House. President Eisenhower was prescient to say the least. Our MIC including The Pentagon, contractors, and bases worldwide are bloated at best and totally redundant at worst. They take from this country’s education, infrastructure, and long-term solvency, while creating nothing of actual value to anyone but those that kill either in the War On Terror, Drugs, or ____! Read
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/01/12-7
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/01/the-tyranny-of-defense-inc/8342/1/
AND GET OFF MY BACK STUPID!
In the wake of the horrible and senseless actions in Tucson last weekend I was not surprised but definitely fearful of what the response would be among the political elites. Instead of hearing them say we need to get out into our communities more and spend less time wining and dining lobbyists and the political punditocracy in DC or make a pledge to stop bullshitting us about everything from the country’s long-term fiscal and monetary stability to Peak Oil….WE GET people like Robert Brady a Democratic Pennsylvanian congressman proposing Political Exceptionalism laws. Read the rest of this entry »
Today is a sad day for me. Today is the day that I realized that ridiculously stupid ideas don’t just come out of Washington.
I’m responding, of course, to the article “Fun and Games Fueling Education” posted here by another contributor last month. In it, the case is made that we are in need of another tax. Something (video games) has popped up that is successful and that millions of people seem to enjoy. That’s bad. Let’s tax the life out of it. We’re not taxed enough already, and our struggling entitlement programs (including the Department of Education) are only struggling because they need MORE money. That is what I’m to believe from this article.
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