Hey man,
How’s it going?
Look. I just read this statement of yours on CNN.com:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/12/18/paterson.obesity/index.html
I hope the link works because it is a brilliant piece of political baloney and I want to be sure my readers get a chance to savor the baloney flavor as well.
You know, it isn’t so much that I mind that my can of Pepsi has been put on the same level as a cigarette in that it is now taxed for the common good, my problem is how stupid you politicians really think we are. Are you serious with this baloney about taxing us on soft drinks an extra 18% to save the children? Is this honestly the low brow drivel you are going to feed us about why you are doing this?
I understand that New York State’s budget deficit is because Upstate is forced to pay for that money pit known as New York City and the tax base in Upstate is leaving in droves … er … ahhh … I mean that the budget deficit is because the New York Stock Exchange is no longer the tax cash cow it used to be but c’mon man! We are not morons! Just tell us that decisions made by past governors have dug us a pit that no state could possibly crawl out of and now the residents, like me, that refuse to leave for some God-knows-why reason will be stuck paying the highest taxes in the Union for quite a while as we continue to wave to the moving trucks as they leave this mis-managed political hellhole known as the state of New York. I can live with the truth. What I can’t live with is some shabby, second rate excuse for a new tax given by a politician who was fighting to keep his job from the day he got it handed to him.
I really hate that. I really hate politicians who roll out the poor children every time they want to justify digging deeper and deeper into our pockets. You want to help the state of New York? Make New York City its own state and force them to survive without the feeding tube that comes from Upstate. That would at least solve all of our problems up here for the time being.
But, come to think of it, do we really want to do that to the children of New York City?
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