Ravenwood - 03/11/05 08:00 AM
A lawmaker from New Jersey (the toll-booth state) wants to tax poker shows on TV. Not the poker games themselves, the actual TV shows.
Now a New Jersey lawmaker wants cable networks that feature gambling to help gambling addicts by giving money to treatment agencies. Assemblywoman Joan Voss, a Democrat, on Tuesday called for a surcharge on state cable providers if the networks don't cooperate.My guess is that she doesn't represent Atlantic City.
But why stop there. You could tax cooking shows for making people fat, and action adventure shows for making people violent, and of course any show that dared to feature somebody smoking a cigarette.
Meanwhile a Florida Senator wants to tax toilet paper. Talk about getting you coming and going. You can't even take a dump now without some Democrat popping up and wanting his two cents.
Stop giving these people ideas, they'll probably try that too!
Posted by: DaveJ at March 11, 2005 12:27 PMThe only good thing to come out of New Jersey is The Sopranos.
Posted by: SayUncle at March 11, 2005 3:48 PMAfter the switch the NJ Dem Party pulled in their last Senate race, nothing would surprise me. This is a Party that is up to its eyeballs in corruption. Their plan is to put John Corzine in the Governor's chair; with a majority in the legislature and control of the State courts they will get away with a great deal. And you know what? It's the fault of the voters of NJ. As long as the people of the State continue to pull the straight Democratic lever it is not gonna change.
Posted by: kjo at March 11, 2005 4:16 PMAh, this really brings back that Monty Python sketch on taxation.
"We could tax, you know, Thingee."
"Poo Poos?"
"NOOO, Thingee."
"Ohhhh, Thingee."
I'm sure I mutilated that but, you know what I mean.
I've long suggest financing everything with a suicide tax. It's an exception to if you tax something, you get less of it.
Posted by: Ron Hardin at March 12, 2005 7:35 AMFor the heck of it, I checked on Joan Voss; her district is in the northeastern part of the state, across the Hudson from NYC, and rather a long way (by New Jersey standards and otherwise) from Atlantic City.
Posted by: CGHill at March 12, 2005 12:02 PMThe toilet paper tax is just more incentive to put newsrags such as the NYT and LAT to proper use.
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