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Terry K,

Excellent rant. I agree with everything except the bits I don't.

I like the shoelace tax suggestion. As my brother says, do we want to remove
boiler inspectors, or do we really want boilers in buildings to be safe (and
does inspection to certain standards keep them safe? - probably does)?
Minimal government is a wonderful concept except when it isn't (those are
the bits I disagree with - the correct size of government is correct, not
minimal - and that will always be a dynamically balancing thing, not static,
probably always tending to over-bloatedness, but then again there are
probably lots and lots of things we don't want to give up, either - like
safe boilers). Remember Walkerton.

Charles

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Charles T. Low
ctlow@boatdocking.com
www.boatdocking.com/
www.ctlow.ca/

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"Terry K" <tkspragg@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote in message
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> The reason why?
>
> Someone in the gov needs excuses to give pork contracts to their
> friends.  Any excuse is OK, so long as they can duck and cover.  Why
> not a shoelace registration, training and license campaign?  Shoe
> laces conceal a wide variety of dangers, including trips and falls,
> resultant medicare costs, lost shoes, even  being an obvious tool to
> accomplish suicide!  We must protect the holeplessly depressed from
> them selves! A new tax on shoelaces should pay for it all, and I
> could write another new database application to keep track of those
> authorised to sell and purchase shoelaces, for only a few million
> dollars.  Hay! if I get the contract, I'll stop criticising,
> right;-)?
>
> The gov promotes contempt by it's actions. Time for real reform.
> Shrink the gov! If we don't, we need shrinks ourselves.
>
> This is so tranparent that most don't even mention it, they just
> grin, bear it, and go down under the table.  The only way to stop
> this is to quit working to avoid taxes and starve the buggars to
> death. That, or we all go to the steps of the capitol, each with a
> pint of rum and an old shoelace, registration fees for the new
> party, or one foot of signed rope,  to be tied into a length
> sufficient to 'restrain' our favorite politicians' excesses. This
> harmless, patently impossible protest method might make for quite a
> party. Shades of Rhinoseriousity! Join the "Grey" Party! So long as
> the last person to tie one on holds onto his property, these threads
> of protest could grow into guite an immoveable ball of string, right
> there in the parking lot. Whoever holds the end with at least one
> hand would be the party boss, and would have another hand free to
> toast the opposition with flammable rum! Such toasting would of
> course  require the use of a bumbershoot and a shower curtain, so as
> not to adversly contaminate the virgin minds of any young persons
> who might see this goings on as perverser than what the gov is doing
> to us with our own stolen tax money.
>
> I say we hold politicians accountable for their campaign promises,
> as if by offering to stand for, and being elected, they had some
> kind of contract with the electorate, who have a right to expect
> "Good Government."
>
> Terry K