everyone move to Oklahoma!

[Center Stage Auto Detailing]

Soon, you won't have to wash your vehicle so much.  I think they're going to declare war on dust.   

http://www.news9.com/global/story.asp?s=12899662

[gipraw]

our government has officially jumped the shark.

[Too Stroked]

And you guys laughed when I posted up that article I wrote about the Obama administration proposing a fee on gravity usage! Hah!

[attworth]

Not surprised. Ever read the reg's on temporary construction road dust?   

Still... agricultural dust? Seriously?

 

[Too Stroked]

Just in case you missed it:

Fee for Gravity Users Proposed
Washington, D.C. - Faced with rapidly widening projected budget deficits, but standing by their promise not to raise taxes on those making less than $250,000 per year, the Obama administration has been searching for ways to increase revenue to fund their ever increasing list of social programs. Today, White House spokesman Henry Faced II announced a plan by which a ?usage fee? would be put in place for ?those companies consuming gravity.? Mr. Faced quickly added that ?This is not a tax, but instead a fee which will only apply only to those actually using gravity in the production of goods and services. This means that the average consumer should not be affected at all ? unless corporations decide to pass this fee on to their customers ? which is not expected. In fact, businesses wise and / or frugal enough not to use any gravity will not have to pay the new fee.?  Officials expect the fee to generate an extra $987 billion a year in revenue ? which will more than fund the new health care initiatives as well as solving the world hunger problem.

This new fee will be based on actual consumption of gravity and will be levied at the time of use since a new administration study estimates that ?without regulation, we will exhaust the world?s supply of gravity in less than ten years.? To make his point, Mr. Faced shared a chart showing how the producer of a gas guzzling 6,000 pound SUV would consume more gravity than an obviously wiser company building a 2,400 pound Toyota Prius Hybrid. By comparison, production of an 18 speed mountain bike with an aluminum frame would consume almost no gravity. In fact, when coupled with proposed administration tax credits for not actually driving cars, the addition of the gravity usage fee will actually allow consumers to ?buy? a mountain bike for free.

When questioned further on how this new fee would apply to other things, Mr. Faced shared another chart showing how the fee would apply to several commonly used items. A new lead acid battery for a car would have a $4.37 usage fee attached to it. Production of a feather on the other hand would only have a $.12 fee applied to it. Production of a lead bullet would have a $1.28 fee applied to each unit due to the weight of the lead. The chart clearly showed how producers of lighter weight products would barely be affected at all by the new fee. In fact, the production of Helium would allow a manufacturer to collect $.37 per pound produced from the government. When questioned further, Mr. Faced noted that ?Government agencies will not have to pay a fee for consuming gravity since much of what they produce is classified as hot air ? which of course rises since it consumes no gravity.?

It was also announced that a new government organization called the Gravity Assessment Liability and Levy agency will be created to assess and collect fees from gravity users. This also neatly addresses the issue around whether or not the Obama administration actually has the gall to tax previously free services.