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2008-04-12 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by no mo uro 2008-04-12 11:03|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 One more reason to bail outta' California for Oklahoma (less than half the cost of living despite having a median income that's about the same as where I live).

Anybody know what a beer costs in Broken Arrow or Tulsa at a decent bar (not necessarily a high end establishment, but not a dive either)? I've got a 3-bedroom, 2 bath house back there in about 3-4 months for $700/month (paying $1450/month for the same basic house in CA).

Frakkin' pols...

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2008-04-12 14:06|| 2008-04-12 14:06|| Front Page Top

#2 So how much is the tax on Cabernet going up?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-04-12 14:23|| 2008-04-12 14:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Relax -- this is a classic political shakedown -- here's the grift: 1)threaten a $1.80 tax 2) reap "campaign contributions" from the beer distributors 3) compromise by levying a mere $.50 tax ("a fraction of what we wanted!") 4) note the regressive nature of the tax to give more goodies to illegal aliens ("they pay taxes like the rest of us, only more!"), 5) Greg moves to OK, sadder by wiser and 6) rinse/repeat in two years.

Posted by regular joe 2008-04-12 14:36|| 2008-04-12 14:36|| Front Page Top

#4 compromise by levying a mere $.50 tax

Let's see...that'll push a 16 oz Coors Light at my favorite bars to $3.50 abd $3.00, respectively. It'll push a beer at the ballpark to something like $7.50. Good designer beers out here run about $4.00 for a 16-22 oz glass so you're looking at $5.00 a glass there at least.

Tack the extra $0.50 onto wine and hard liquor and you might as well be $10 for a beer and a shot.

It's typical graft (grift is right!) at the state level - nobody in their right mind in this state should think that any of the taxes taken in by this will go anywhere except into some state Senator or Assemblyman's special pork project and from there right into his or her pockets.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2008-04-12 17:20|| 2008-04-12 17:20|| Front Page Top

#5 No chance in hell of passing or even seeing a serious hearing, and that is according to the LA Times who loves crap like this and would be behind it 100%.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2008-04-12 21:33|| 2008-04-12 21:33|| Front Page Top

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