Jonah Goldberg put on his thinking cap and came up with this one:
I say let’s have Election Day on tax day. Let’s get what we’re paying for. Sign the check — for the full amount — and write in your preferred candidates on the back of the same check.
Abracadabra . . . smaller government, here we come.
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Since the public lacks the ability to realize that Democrats who pledge to lower taxes are lying, I don’t think the administration would have any problem with Goldberg’s plan.
They’d probably appreciate the chance to match the votes on one side of the check with the signature on the other.
I read somewhere that Anchorage used to have their municipal elections in April, until the pols realized why they were having so much trouble getting tax hikes approved by voters.
Problem is most Americans don’t pay much in taxes.
Since so many people receive a check related to April 15th, wouldn’t this lead to even more incumbents winning? I think the idea about the one-withdrawal-a-year to pay for taxes has merit toward getting people to get angry about their taxes, but for most people it still won’t be worse than an even wash. Not an epic fail on Goldberg’s part, but a fail nonetheless.
Are Republicans that out of touch in relation to populism? Apparently, yes. Having a leadership base of rich white Christian corporatists is a problem for both parties, but for some reason only the Republicans turn it into their main public image. Their attempts at reaching the Common Man, as exemplified by the C-list reality show stars Sarah Palin and Samuel Wurtzelbacher, are the kind of thing that will make Ivory Tower-dwelling bowtie-wearing eggheaded liberal arts professors have a resurgence in popularity (assuming they ever had a surge in the first place.) The face of the party is a vindictive liar, a guy who admits to not knowing anything about what he’s paid to speak against, a tear-streaked fearmonger Glenn Beck, and a drug-addicted blowhard who is for all intents and purposes the freaking Pope of the GOP. The political leadership, those guys who are supposed to be actually doing stuff in DC, have press conferences to reveal empty blue folders and have nothing substantive to add to any budget discussions. If I was a registered Republican, I’d be ashamed that there is no agenda other than to do nothing other than to be sad little kicked puppy victims whining in their corner.
I understand their unwillingness to confront the budget with actual numbers, but I don’t understand their willingness to pretend to have something in the works when it’s quite obvious they did not. The Democrats in the Senate back when they were the minority party certainly were this feckless as well, but they didn’t hold quite as many press conferences to point it out. I look forward to the battle for the soul of the party, but I have a feeling they sold it to a bunch of guys who cashed it in for access to the new regime. Hope it was worth it.
<rolls eyes, hands Jon the whole damn cookie jar>
Sorry dude, there won’t be any more until I get my tax refund. You’ll just have to regulate your mood some other way until then.
Problem is most Americans don’t pay much in taxes — Jimmy
That’s not a bug, it’s a feature. The plan implies that only taxpayers can vote and the sponge-o-sphere loses its influence and thus its ability to raid the cookie jar.
a vindictive liar
a guy who admits to not knowing anything about what he’s paid to speak against
a tear-streaked fearmonger,
and a drug-addicted blowhard who is for all intents and purposes the freaking Pope of the party.