Nick Arnett wrote: > >> So, no hope that The Governator will become POTUS? > > Hope? Hope??? > > You mean "No danger that the Governator will become POTUS?" > :-) > No, there isn't... short of a change in the law. > > Even though I'll acknowledge that he hasn't turned out to be nearly > as bad as many of us feared, I hope his political career ends right > where it is. > Politics is addictive. I don't remember any political figure who choses to quit.
> His latest proposal is to balance our state budget by borrowing from > future lottery revenue. How is that even remotely conservative, > anyway? I guess because it isn't a tax, even though many call the > lottery "the stupidity tax." Not that there's any visible > solution to our budget troubles. > But, if I understand anything from Economics, isn't the "stupidity tax" always at its maximum? Meaning that any 0.1% increase in the tax will make betters change from the legal lottery to illegal lotteries or (legal) private gambling? Here in Brazil, the bloodthistyness of the g*vernment is always checked by smuggling and falsification. Alberto Monteiro PS: changed the subject to a La Femme Nikita reference. Also, death and taxes... _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
