Archive for “January of 2007”

Taxation to Make Benefit Most Glorious State of Michigan!

January 25, 2007

Please excuse the lame Borat reference in the title of this post.
Of all the dubious, questionable, counterproductive, and downright backwards economic advice I’ve ever heard, this suggestion, from the Michigan Infrastructure and Transportation Association has got to take the cake:
[S]pokesman Mike Nystrom says MITA hopes to sell lawmakers and drivers on a 9-cent gas tax […]

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Internet Groceries?

January 23, 2007

Would you pay someone $20 or so to do your grocery shopping for you? After all, you pay someone to mow your lawn, wash your car, launder your shirts & slacks (coincidentally I picked up my order at the cleaners yesterday - there’s nothing like a freshly pressed shirt). But back to the […]

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Of Passports & Broken Windows

January 23, 2007

Today’s Broken Window Fallacy - as reported in WSJ:
“Passport Rules to Help Destinations”
To recap: the new passport legislation requires valid passports for all travel between the United States, Mexico, Canada, and a host of other formerly free-to-travel countries like the Bahamas. This ham-fisted rule, according to idiots everywhere, will spur growth and profits in U.S. […]

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Dumbest thing I’ve read today

January 23, 2007

Regarding proper disposal of medicine, in today’s Personal Journal (WSJ $$$ — Maybe?):
“…Unless the directions say otherwise, don’t flush medications down the drain or toilet because they chemicals can taint the water supply.”
For a little bit of the lowbrow in all of us, I can’t pass up a good quotation that uses the word “taint,” […]

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