GreenMonkey Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3147454 Locke, according to The Amarillo Globe News, wants "to do away with property taxes statewide" while taxing "violent games" and a myriad of other things (i.e. abortions and soft drinks) a whopping 50%. He sees these taxes as "the power to destroy. So our concept is that we need to tax things we don't want and you want to not tax things you want to encourage." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbert Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 Just to be clear, this guy is 100% a fringe candidate and has less chance of being nominated than Kinky Friedman has of being elected Governer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainl Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 I always did think Locke looked shifty, ever since I first saw Lost. This is a completely ludicrous suggestion by a fringe nutter. Still, he's succeeded in getting orders of magnitude more coverage for his campaign with his silly statements, which was no doubt his intention all along. Even the most brain-dead candidate must be able to work out that a $10,000 tax on abortion won't raise a single cent, as everyone will head out of state. By all means stand on a platform of banning it (and watch as any such law gets smacked all around the park by the judiciary), but don't seriously pretend you will raise money that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 I gotta disagree with you guys. I think it's an awesome idea. And I also think we should tax douchebag grasping politicians. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 but don't seriously pretend you will raise money that way. He's not trying to raise money but he'll have to(read on). He's trying to tax exhorbently what he doesn't like and think should go away. His biggest problem is that if he gets rid of property taxes which are super high in texas as it is, he has to get revenue to come in to pay for what property taxes were paying for. If he has a solution other than taxing these things then I'm all ears. The only way I could think of off the top of my head would be to start doing income taxes again in Texas and that will go over like a lead brick. They are essentially trying to make people quit smoking by raising taxes on them thru the roof. I'll be curious if super high taxes has any affect on it. It would in essense be the same as what he is trying here for violent video games, abortions etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Sheets Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 They are essentially trying to make people quit smoking by raising taxes on them thru the roof. I'll be curious if super high taxes has any affect on it. It would in essense be the same as what he is trying here for violent video games, abortions etc. IIRC, it hasn't worked much in many other states. As one of my bosses at work likes to point out in his editorials (we're a tax-based publication), the problem with taxing stuff that you'd like to get rid of is that eventually the state gets to liking all the tax revenue coming from those sources. So you get politicians talking about all this stuff as if they'd like to get rid of it in order to get votes, but behind the scenes they're actually pretty happy that people are smoking or doing whatever because it means that much more tax revenue coming in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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