tag:www.thedonovan.com,2012://1/tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10603-2012-01-06T18:20:26ZComments for Heh...We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010Movable Type 4.12tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.106032009-04-06T14:39:20Z2009-04-06T14:50:47ZHeh...It was Michael Kinsley who said that a gaffe is when a politician inadvertently speaks the truth.Attila of Argghhh!)]]>http://www.thedonovan.com I believe this quote pretty much sums up the BO administration nicely. I think it would make a good Tea Party sign...
"...you find some group that's small enough where they can't beat you up, and you tax them and you tell everybody else, 'See? We didn't tax you.'"
H/T to David Freddoso at The Corner]]>
tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10603-comment:86953Comment from Josh on 2009-04-08Josh
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2009-04-08T15:12:29Z2009-04-08T15:12:29Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10603-comment:86941Comment from BillT on 2009-04-08BillThttp://www.thedonovan.com
You can live without candy, but you can't live without bullets." -- Kim Jong-Il ]]>
2009-04-08T06:26:35Z2009-04-08T06:26:35Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10603-comment:86933Comment from Josh on 2009-04-07Josh
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2009-04-08T00:56:58Z2009-04-08T00:56:58Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10603-comment:86932Comment from Josh on 2009-04-07Josh
As for taxing soda and candy...I heard of that. They can take away all my rights and my property, but I swear that every last one of them standing between me and my sugar will not live to tell the tale. ]]>
2009-04-08T00:54:39Z2009-04-08T00:54:39Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10603-comment:86872Comment from BillT on 2009-04-06BillThttp://www.thedonovan.com
After NJ hiked its syntax on terbaccy a few years ago, NJSP set up roadblocks checkpoints on the bridges between Trenton and Morrisville, PA. State employes merely traveled the extra five miles upriver to the Scudders Falls bridge, but the additional travel time extended each one's rather nebulous "lunch hour" by an additional 30-45 minutes, and the staties were told to knock it off so that employees could return to the business of meddling with normal citizens in a timely fashion. ]]>
2009-04-06T18:05:44Z2009-04-06T18:05:44Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10603-comment:86868Comment from Maggie on 2009-04-06Maggiehttp://bostonmaggie.blogspot.com ]]>
2009-04-06T17:07:48Z2009-04-06T17:07:48Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10603-comment:86862Comment from Boquisucio on 2009-04-06Boquisucio
1- You create a massive new bureaucracy that needs gobs of new tax dollars. i.e. SCHIP. Where 25- year-old "children" receive nationalized medical services. Who's gonna fight giving medical care to "children"?
2-You target sinful "evil" saps to pay for it. i.e. Rise tobbacco taxes sky-high.
3-People either stop smoking, or get their smokes from underground sources (Indian Reservations), because they can't afford their habit through legal means.
4-Tax revenue from tobbacco plummets. At which time the government either raise tobbacco taxes even higher, and/or taxes other groups in the general economy to feed their newly created bureaucratic piggy. ]]>
2009-04-06T16:47:54Z2009-04-06T16:47:54Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10603-comment:86847Comment from Kevin on 2009-04-06Kevin
Too bad, so sad they bankrupted an entire industry as well as endangered thousands of mom n' pop blue collar shops..... Oh well, it was 'for the children'.
Rapture!
First they came for the tobacconists...... ]]>
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