3.01.2009

File under Chuckle of the Week


In his 11 years in the Washington Legislature, Representative Mark Miloscia says he has supported all manner of methods to fill the state’s coffers, including increasing fees on property owners to help the homeless and taxes on alcohol and cigarettes, most of which, he said, passed “without a peep.”



And so it was last month that Mr. Miloscia, a Democrat, decided he might try to “find a new tax source” — pornography.

[From Struggling States Look to Unorthodox Taxes - NYTimes.com]


4 comments:

Lynn C Dot said...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/400649_porntax19.html

This was the take in the local paper. Funny (and I've been to that bakery)!

Ted Compton said...

LOL:

"I think it's important that the city has places like that. It makes your grandmother go, 'Ooohhhhhh!' "

Lynn C Dot said...

The bakery is here, in case you were wondering:

http://www.theeroticbakery.com/

Of course, posting this address may expose YAME to more internet hits, skyrocketing us to 968,341.

Ted Compton said...

Ooohhhhhh!