LEFT WING LOONS
See other LEFT WING LOONS Articles
Title: (mayor of Omaha) Suttle unrolls (federal) toilet paper tax
Source:
Omaha World-Herald
URL Source: http://www.omaha.com/article/20110323/NEWS01/703239866
Published: Mar 23, 2011
Author: Maggie O'Brien
Post Date: 2011-03-23 20:22:01 by Hondo68
Keywords: a 10-cent federal tax, federally mandated sewer impro, toilet paper tax
Views: 4017
Comments: 7
Mayor Jim Suttle went to Washington Tuesday flush with ideas for how federal officials could help cities like Omaha pay for multibillion-dollar sewer projects. Among the items on his brainstorming list: a proposal for a 10-cent federal tax on every roll of toilet paper you buy. Based on the four-pack price for Charmin double rolls Tuesday at a midtown Hy-Vee, such a tax would add more than 10 percent to the per-roll price, pushing it over a buck. The idea came from a failed 2009 House measure by an Oregon congressman to help cities and the environment. “I heard about it and said, ‘Well, this is simple. Let's put it on the table,'” said Suttle. “It doesn't mean I endorse it.” The mayor says Omaha needs help with the metro area's $1.7 billion bill for federally mandated sewer improvements. The work must be done by 2024. Suttle talked about the mandate at a Tuesday meeting held by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. He didn't mention the toilet paper tax but said later that he's open to that and other ways to cover the sewer bill. “How are we affording this ... as we come out of the recession?” he asked. Suttle plans to ask Nebraska's congressional delegation to ease the blow to Omaha and other cities. He'd like the federal government to cover half of the cities' costs, possibly with grants. Whether the toilet paper tax has legs remains to be seen, but Omaha's large industries that balked under significant sewer rate increases are listening. Julia Plucker, a lobbyist for Kellogg's and Skinner Baking, says food industries carry an unfair portion of the increases. A toilet paper tax? Sure. “I did chuckle when I first heard about it,” Plucker said. “But this is a serious problem. We would love to take a look at any more equitable solution.”
Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
(Edited)
Actually, the Federal govt should have a tax for all Internet transactions. The Internet was developed by the Federal govt not the private sector and it is mature enough an entity to be able to absorb such a tax.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Did hObama run out of golf balls, or something? He needs to appoint a czar of lost balls.
I recall a re-run of MASH I saw where this uber right winger named Colonel Flagg... I don't know if you think you are being a hipster and failing or just lost touch with reality - but I have no fucking clue what you go on about. Please go un-fuck yourself.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
a tax for all Internet transactions Well, it's kinda F'd up to just propose a tax without a reason. Since it's your idea, what would you waste this internet transaction tax on? What's the purpose of the tax, just to grow government, impose more draconain regulations, and impoverish the serfs even further? Hey, you could tazer, fine, and jail violators too! Wouldn't the poor be hardest hit.?
I recall a re-run of MASH I saw where this uber right winger named Colonel Flagg... OK, you are un-fucking yourself and posing a real question. So you asked "Well, it's kinda F'd up to just propose a tax without a reason." It's a return on the tax payers investment. How is that for a reason? Would a for profit corporation invent and nurture something like the internet and not ask for compensation in return? That is what the govt did when it financed all those programs in the military and in universities to create the internet. You think some pimple face kid in some garage created the internet? Wrong technology. That pimple face kid may have been the developer of the personal PC but not the internet. I find it ironic you so called haters of all things govt proclaim such a position over the govt invented and run internet...... You don't want to get taxes for purchases using the govt invented internet under my proposal? Then fuck off and drive to the store. You will probably have to drive to the store on govt built roads with govt run traffic lights on cars that had to be inspected for safety by the govt. Or you can move your govt hating body to Somalia where there is no govt and no paved roads and no traffic lights and no govt regulations of any kind.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
We the people are the government. We paid for the internet, roads, traffic lights, and all of the other wonderful things OUR gov did. We own the dang thing! So we should be taxed for doing all these wonderful things? I don't think so. Your concept of government as some kind of benevolent god that showers us with blessings, is absurd to say the least.
I recall a re-run of MASH I saw where this uber right winger named Colonel Flagg... Oh, so you are a socialist that wants the govt to hand out stuff for free? You mean the govt never places a toll on roads or bridges? Who are you trying to scam? Tax internet transactions. We could then reduce federal income taxes without blowing holes in the budget.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
#2. To: Godwinson (#1)
(Edited)
the Federal govt should have a tax for all Internet transactions
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Godwinson posted on 2011-02-23 11:47:32 ET
http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=18011&Disp=46#C46
#3. To: hondo68 (#2)
#4. To: Godwinson (#3)
Please go un-fuck yourself.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Godwinson posted on 2011-02-23 11:47:32 ET
http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=18011&Disp=46#C46
#5. To: hondo68 (#4)
(Edited)
#6. To: Godwinson (#5)
(Edited)
the govt did when it financed all those programs You will probably have to drive to the store on govt built roads with govt run traffic lights
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Godwinson posted on 2011-02-23 11:47:32 ET
http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=18011&Disp=46#C46
#7. To: hondo68 (#6)
We the people are the government. We paid for the internet, roads, traffic lights, and all of the other wonderful things OUR gov did. We own the dang thing!
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
[Home] [Headlines] [Latest Articles] [Latest Comments] [Post] [Mail] [Sign-in] [Setup] [Help] [Register]