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I have heard people in the past say "why can't we run the government like a business?" I have even whispered those words myself. Well the truth is that businesses get competitive bids on projects and follow budgets, and local governments do not. How about businesses being run like a geovernment? A grand idea I had while reading about Indiana's failure to properly address the property tax fiasco that has plagued Hoosiers for far too long. It works something like this - say you run a small business in New Albany and for argument's sake, we'll say it is a brew pub. You decide to try out this very modern and progressive new business style. You start by charging customers according to their income. Sounds fair so far. So the well off patron, you can tell he is well off by the little alligator on his shirt, gets charged ten bucks a pint. Hey, he can afford it you know. Now the middle income guy, the hard working Carhart jacket fellow, gets charged three dollars a pint. You still with me? Finally, the low income or no income person gets their pint for free. What a plan. Now after a week or two, the atmosphere of the place really starts to change. The well off fellow isn't coming around anymore. He is at home brewing his own or maybe thinking of starting his own pub. The middle income guy still stops by for his usual one or two. But, the place is crawling with lower income folks. Hey, nothing wrong with that. Everyone deserves a great pint now and then, right? You might think this place would be going under in a hurry with no income from the majority of the patrons. AHA - you didn't consider that the government pays the establishment four bucks for every pint that is consumed by the lower income segment and even pays these people another fifty cents a pint to drink it. Now who pays actual tab? You guessed it, the well off guy who sit at home with a Milwaukee's Best wondering what went wrong.
Man I love this country.
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You receive an A+ on this one, mate. It's the bomb!
It gives me a brill idea!
Now then ol' chap...are you ready to start up a pub? We can go over to the UK and if we get jammy we could buy an old pub...bring it back here and give it an authentic British feel! They won't feel homesick for Europe...we'll make 'em feel right at home, yeah?
By-the-way, how's your British accent?
Ta!
Cute and well written. I appreciate humor.
By the way, at least the guy getting $.50 for drinking the brew is actually doing something. What about the real life scenario of the farmer(who overwhelmingly votes Republican)that gets paid for NOT planting anything?
I am not a big fan of farm subsidies. The rules need to be way more strict. I've seen those with small land areas get paid for not raising crops that they weren't going to in the first place. We do need to protect the farmers against disaster, but not gardeners against intrusive rodents.
What about the real life scenario of the farmer(who overwhelmingly votes Republican)that gets paid for NOT planting anything?
Which part of that concept bothers you...the farmer who gets paid for doing nothing or for voting Republican? LOL
Ya mean there ARE farmers that are Republican's? I guess there's hope for us yet. I come from a big ol' family of farmers and I'm not sure if any of them are Republicans.
Oh, neither one really bothers me. Hypocrisy bother me though.
Just a little info, I'm in the agricultural business, my father was a farmer, as was his father. I'm also aware of the general concepts behind the set aside program.
Planning on voting, Suzanne?
Mark
Yeah...your hypocrisy bothers me too but I'll let ya slide this time. :)
My mother's family are all farmers...big ol' Democrats and experts on manure and those gimme government programs. ;)
Here's my paen to dipshits and the alleged charity of the blissfully ignorant.
(lowering my voice)
I'd advise six months of reading.
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