Spare Some Change?

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by N.E. Republican

A friend emailed this to me:

Archived in: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Humor/Satire, Presidential Election, Taxation

July 15, 2008 at 12:17 pm | Trackback

3 comments

1 Helen { 07.15.08 at 3:44 pm }: This is too good to be true, NER…

CHANGE
Cause that’e all you’ll have when WE’RE done…

WHOO-HOO, Mainers! Outstanding job!!!

AUGUSTA, Maine –The Fed Up with Taxes Coalition today filed more than enough signatures with the Secretary of State to force a statewide vote this fall on $75 million of new taxes on beverages and health care claims, despite a well-financed campaign urging Maine people not to sign their petitions.

“Maine people now get to have the final say on these new taxes,” said Newell Augur, Chairman of Fed Up With Taxes, a bipartisan coalition of Maine people, businesses and organizations that is leading the effort to repeal the taxes.

“With more than 90,000 signatures collected in less than 60 days, it’s clear that Mainers are angry about these taxes, upset about the way they were passed, and are ready to join us in voting YES on November 4th”, said Augur. “A majority of legislators thought they could slip this one by the voters in the middle of the night. Thanks to the success of the signature gathering effort, we now will have a chance to debate these taxes in the light of day. We are confident that Maine people will reject them soundly.” …

…Augur said that his group filed petitions containing more than 90,000 signatures with the Secretary of State, two days before the July 17 deadline. More than 80% of the signatures have been validated by municipal clerks.

http://www.fedupwithtaxes.org/.....ple-s-Veto
2 Ed G. Mann { 07.15.08 at 6:03 pm }: That is all Obama wishes you to have. Then he can thell you how he’ll take care of you. O’ to be in the arms of big government.
3 Hotspur { 07.15.08 at 8:05 pm }: Most of the tax burden, over the long term, will fall on those who admire Obama the most. The idealistic young, just starting out, who will never enjoy the so-called benefits derived from their lifelong tax “contributions”.

All that righteousness and social committment has a price tag, among which is high real unemployment, and the inevitable intersection of revenues with govt obligations, and then decline or further tax increases….e.g., the European social democracies.

It’s going to be fun to watch.