home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky talk.abortion:57101 misc.legal:23003 alt.abortion.inequity:6610 alt.child-support:4618 soc.men:23021 soc.women:22903
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,misc.legal,alt.abortion.inequity,alt.child-support,soc.men,soc.women
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!news!humu!pegasus!tleylan
- From: tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan)
- Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal: Illegitimate-conception Tax
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.080537.25451@pegasus.com>
- Organization: Pegasus, Honolulu
- References: <1993Jan17.042429.16551@rotag.mi.org> <1993Jan17.163155.20964@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan18.032012.19296@rotag.mi.org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 08:05:37 GMT
- Lines: 31
-
- kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
-
- >At least the "Illegitimate-conception Tax" proposal would spread
- >the cost of that behavior over a wide base of "irresponsible" unmarried,
- >fertile, sexually-active and unlucky adults, and leave them thar good,
- >upstanding, married, abstinent, lucky and/or sterile/barren folks economically
- >unscathed. Valid state objective, no?
-
- Nobody seems willing to state the obvious... "this is a joke".
-
- First I don't think it qualifies as a "tax" but rather a fee and if you're
- trying to raise money through fees then start one called a "breathing fee"
- and the money can go to cleaning up the air. Anyone who doesn't want to
- breath doesn't have to pay.
-
- Then there is the "finger fee" since people with fingers potentially can
- hold a gun and shoot other people. If you'd like your fingers removed
- you won't have to pay the fee.
-
- I've got it... the government can set it up so if anybody wants to have
- sex they pay a fee regardless of whether anybody gets pregnant. It can
- be called the "Pimp Act".
-
- Your idea is mindless. You know why they don't "just pass a fat people"
- tax ? Because it wouldn't pass and nobody would pay and anyone who
- tried to enforce it would be screwed... If you're trying to devise a
- way to place 30% of the American population in jail you're on the trail
- if you're trying to solve a problem your engine has derailed.
-
- tom
-
-