Just when you thought that the federal taxes were bad enough, consider that some cities and states have some creative taxes of their own that they have in mind.  Here’s some doozies:

• Washington, D.C.  D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty has a creative tax to reduce his city’s deficit: an extra $51 tax for those street lights.  Looks like it’s going to be expensive to lurk around at night.
• Kentucky.  On April 1, the state will impose a 6% tax hike on a product that is rightfully theirs: Kentucky bourbon.  Probably makes you want to drink – but probably not Kentucky bourbon though.
• Nevada.  The world’s oldest profession – which is legal here, by the way, will get a bit more costlier.  Doing the wild thing – if a Las Vegas Democrat has his way – will cost you $5 more per visit.  Yet another reason to remain monogamous.
• Nevada and other states.  That damn “bed tax”.  Basically, it is a tax for every night you spend in a hotel room.   A lot of states have this surcharge, so shop carefully when looking for a hotel room – or better yet, stay at home.
• Texas.  A “pole tax” brings some ducats to the state’s coffers – to the tune of $11.2 million back since 2007.  The tax?  A $5 charge evey time you go to s strip club.  The “pole tax” was supposed to go towards “sexual assault services (the irony isn’t lost here); however,  a judge in TX says that implementing the tax is infringement of free speech.  Florida and New York are considering something similar themselves.
• California.  You knew that California would be here, mindful of their $42 billion deficit.  But they went to an old standby.  Some kook assemblyman from San Francisco (where else?) wants to assess a tax on legalized marijuana at $50/ounce.  Oregon wants to do this too.  I’m just wondering:  were these lawmakers high thinking this one up?
• Nationwide.  Pure and simple, folks: higher gasoline taxes.  States and cities are looking to levy taxes on you – and soon – for the privilege of driving your automobile.  Depending on where you live, look in your rear-view mirror for new highway taxes, increased toll rates, speeding cameras, etc., otherwise, you may get pulled over – literally.
• Washington state.  Getting “stimulated” may get more expensive in Washington state soon; a state representative wants to levy a tax on everything pornographic (magazines, photos, videos, etc.).  the money is supposed to go towards saving programs that serve the poor and disabled.  But it looks like strange “bedfellows” teamed up to strike that idea down.  Guess who?  The skin lobby, Democrats in the state legislature and believe it or not – the ACLU.  Who’d have thought?

By the way, if you smoke, the cost of a pack of cigarettes is supposed to increase, so stock up.

Artist: Michael Ramirez

More paving has been done on the road to socialism; to recap just a bit, it was almost two weeks ago when the House – after going into mock rage mode after the disclosure of the bonuses paid to some higher-ups at AIG – passed a bil that would have taxed those bonuses at a 90% rate.  Despite the overwhelming vote, support for the measure petered out almost immediately.  The Obama administration backed away from the idea as did the Democratic Senate leadership; however, the House Financial Services Committee is up to their old tricks.

The committee, led by that Socialist homo Barney Frank, has approved a move that would go even further than the original AIG bill; speciifcally, the new legislation, called “Pay for Performance Act of 2009“, would impose government controls over the pay of all employees – not just the top executives – of companies that received federal bailout money from the government.  The proposed bill would not only be retroactive, but would allow Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to obtain extraordinary powers which would determine the pay of thousands of employees of American companies.

The bill also gives Turbotax Timmy the power to determine what pay is “unreasonable” or “excessive”; it also directs the Treasury Department to come up with a method to evaluate the “performance of the individual executive or employee to who the payment relates.”  Folks, this is exactly why big government never works.  Anyone who remembers anything that FDR did during his time in office knows what I am talking about here.  It is a certified fact that the government has never succeeded in running anything in the private sector.

Right now, they are trying to run General Motors and Chrysler, now they’re trying to run select Wall Street institutions, as well.  This is exactly what nationalization is all about here – or you can call it socialism or whatever.  But nonetheless, this is exactly why – and yes again I am being redundant here – we, the people of these United States, need to get off our asses and get proactive.  The government is slowly but certainly taking away capitalism from its roots.  And you know what?  We have to organize and make a concerted effort in order to get our voices heard.

The government isn’t paying us much attention – just yet.  But rest assured, they most certainly will as there are lots of jobs at stake here – in the House, Senate and a few State Houses (governorships) during the 2010 election cycle.  They’ve already taken our money, now they’re trying to take our liberties from us, as well.  Do you want that?  I sure as hell don’t.  That is why getting organized is so important here; because if we don’t then we will most certainly become Socialist.  And I’ll be damned if I am gonna be a Socialist in my lifetime.  I’ll go down swinging if need be.  I, like the rest of you, want my country back.  Bottom line.

The GM/Chrysler crisis and President Obama’s trip to Europe took precedence on the Tuesday talk show circuit this morning.

The Tuesday news update, courtesy of Fox News Channel.

By definition, shouldn’t a sitting President be doing important stuff, like signing important legislation, meeting with officials and the like?  Well it looks like President Obama found another “creative” way to spend a part of his day as on Monday night – if he isn’t doing so already – he will be flooding  lots of inboxes, imploring Democraps who get the email from the president to remember to vote for New York businessman Scott Murphy.

Who is Scott Murphy?  Again, just some businessman from New York state who is running against Republican state legislator Jim Tedisco; both are in the race for a seat that came open in the 20th Congressional District when Democrap Kirsten Gillibrand filled the Senate seat that was held by current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.  The email was paid for by Organizing for America, some grass-roots organization which is a pet project of the DNC; not surprisingly, the return address was barackobama.com.  Below is the email that will be mass-sent (if it hasn’t been sent already):

From: President Barack Obama <info@barackobama.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:04 PM
Subject: Please vote tomorrow
To:
Tomorrow, Tuesday, is the day to vote in New York’s 20th Congressional District special election, and I need you to go vote.

I wrote to you last week to announce my endorsement of Scott Murphy because we need his kind of leadership and experience in Washington. It’s going to be a very close race, and your vote could make all the difference.

Our movement for change has come this far because supporters like you stood up and made your voices heard every time it mattered.
Please look up your polling location and stand up once again for the change we need to bring to Washington.

With Scott in Congress, we’ll work together to bring about solutions to our economic challenges and create new jobs in Upstate New York and across the country.

Having created over 1,000 jobs by starting successful businesses in clean energy and high-tech industries, Scott understands the potential we have to rebuild our economy and create a new foundation for prosperity.

That’s the kind of partner I need in Washington. Please look up your polling place and vote tomorrow:

http://my.barackobama.com/pollingplace

Thank you,

President Barack Obama

Let this be your opportunity, should you live in the 20th Congressional District in the state of New York, to get out and vote on Tuesday for Jim Tedisco – not this Scott Murphy.

The departure of now former GM CEO Rick Wagoner took precedence on the Monday morning talk show circuit.