Coffee Taxes And Other Ways To End The Deficit
Editors Note: Recently some brilliant folks in the state of Washington tried to get local residents to pay for important things like child care by slapping a ten cent surcharge on coffee.
TheWeeklyChuckle You know, like the cup of Java you shell out $5 bucks for.
To put it mildly, the surcharge didn’t go over very well with voters. In fact, Washington state citizen got a tad bit…shirty about the entire thing.
We wonder who the genius was way up in he Northwest, the epicenter of coffee houses and triple mocha lattes mind you. Who WAS this Enstein who got up one day and declared, “Golly! Let’s slap a surcharge on coffee, folks will just LOVE that.”
And they say the politics in California are stupid.
To help public servants with this kind of thing, we have assembled a ready made list of surcharges and taxes that politicians should have equal luck getting voters to approve:
1. California toll for Jamba Juice power drinks.
2. Levy on Canadians for attending hockey games.
3. Tax Texan-based chili cook-offs.
4. Tariff on all Southerners cooking with pork fat.
5. Female diet tax.
6. Male porn tax (big revenue possibilities on this one).
7. Teenage angst tax.
8. Fees for athletes hiring criminal defense attorneys.
9. Fines on lawyers who litigate.
10. Charges for middle aged men who insist on third and beyond trophy
wives.
And you all thought there was no easy answer to the mounting national debt crisis.
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