🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:24:35 -0500, Jer <gdunn@airmail.ten> wrote:

>Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:33:14 -0500, Jer <gdunn@airmail.ten> wrote:
>> 
>>> Let the sin taxes begin...
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/10/09/chavez.taxes.ap/index.html
>> 
>> Sin taxes are a middle man he has eliminated by going straight to the
>> seizure of "Beer Trucks".
>
>Beer trucks selling on the street short-circuits the beer taxes paid at 
>the retail level.  If beer trucks in the U.S. did the same thing, they'd 
>get the same cold shoulder for the same reason.
>
>> 
>> But he is also against Boob Jobs and Barbie Dolls.  The man has my
>> vote there.
>
>Both play to a false reality.  Not my cup 'o tea either, but I'm not man 
>enough to believe my opinion should have any influence over someone 
>else's choices about what they play with.
>
>> 
>> He goes on to ask folks not to use "Too Much Hot sauce" define "Too
>> Much".  For all I know, down there, "Too Much" might not even be close
>> to right for some of my Mexican Friends.
>
>I don't know where this came from.  What's the point?
>
>"Chavez sees his nation's culture corrupted by U.S.-style capitalist 
>values.  He says a new, humanist moral code is in order."
>
>This is a quote I can't disagree with, but it's tough for a government 
>to legislate morality.  Then again, it isn't my government either.

That is why it is fun to stand back, point, and giggle.