By: calico

calico — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:25:07 +0000

I don’t know if a %3 tax would be enough to stop people from getting pets. as a poor college student with a cat, that would only be an additional 60 cents a month, not even. I’m not sure that people would even consider that tax in the process of getting their pet.

By: curmudgeon

curmudgeon — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 14:24:33 +0000

Now now. Give Sen. Padavan some credit. He’s merely trying to get a local tax in place before the UN introduces a global pooch tax or before it’s added to the Kyoto fleece treaty.

By: Alex Reed

Alex Reed — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:19:29 +0000

With the advent of Spring, all politicians fancies turn to taxes. Although Sen. Padavan represents the tail end of the current national tax grab, he’s certainly not the only New York pol to have drunk the Kool-Aid. His fellow Republican, Mayor Bloomberg, has big designs on the wallets of anyone wanting to drive into New York City: $8 bucks a pop for cars, $21 for trucks. Considering the vast number of people who must drive their cars or trucks into the city every day, this tax will bring in a bonanza to the city coffers. Ernest Istook, a former U.S. congressman who chaired the Appropriations Transportation Subcommittee, and is now a fellow over at The Heritage Foundation, details the Mayor’s brainstorm in this Fox News article.
Now, were the Mayor to see to it that those tax dollars were applied to provide the much needed repair of bridges and roadways in the city, or for, say, music and art studies in the school system, or to encourage dancing in the kitchen, I’d be all for it, and would gladly chip in my contribution every time I drive into town. Would that the Mayor had these worthy causes in mind as the recipients of his tax largesse. Instead he seems to have a greener idea: he wants to plow all the tax revenues into an estimated $50 Billion expansion of the mass transit system!! Yes, that’s $50 Billion, with a B! Oh, and to just get his scheme off the ground, he’s looking to the federal government to pony up an estimated $225 million to build a high-tech tracking system to be sure the tax has been paid. Fiscal wonders never cease in New York!
The Mayor should leave off his ill-advised attempt at becoming some peculiar version of The Killer Rabbit, guarding all the entrances to New York with a tax collector box in hand. He would do much better to try out as one of The Knights Who Say Ni, and demand a shrubbery of all drivers who want into the Big Apple. Thus, he could easily fulfill his promise to plant trees on every New York street. A politician fulfilling a promise……now, that would be a first!

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