I've been considering the Refrigerator Tax and you know... I think it's a pretty good idea.

[TalkingDog]

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-18-2011/world-of-class-warfare---the-poor-s-free-ride-is-over

My Plan for the Refrigerator Tax

I think we should tax anyone with a refrigerator, based on the following rubric:

For each refrigerator the tax payer will be assessed on functioning units and :

- How large the refrigerator is in terms of cubic feet and whether it has a freezer incorporated into the design; which will increase the tax rate, of course.

- How old it is (depreciation, like your car), because older units are more likely to break down and need to be replaced. This has the effect of stimulating the economy and generating sales tax. So with older units you want to allow people to save money by not taxing older units as highly.

- People with separate freezer units will be charged higher rates for those. The rates, again depending on size and age of the unit.

Those people living in rental properties and who do not actually OWN the refrigerators in their living spaces, will not pay any taxes on those units. The landlord will be charged a business tax rate for multiple units.

Corporate Persons will pay for Ice Machines, mini bars, dorm fridges and walk in units (freezer and/or fridge) under the same tax rate as Human Persons.

Individuals who have chosen to be refrigerated (read: Walt Disney and Ted Williams) will incur a doubling of the Refrigerator Tax.

I think this is an equitable plan for all involved and lays the tax burden where it belongs; on those who own refrigerators.

Thank you for listening. Your questions and comments are welcome.

[LiberalFighter]

1. It is flawed.

Landlords will be paying the tax via a rent increase.

Corporate persons will pay the tax via an increase in product or service cost. Just as businesses do not pay taxes when the cost is included in the product sold.

[TalkingDog]

2. Umm.. Did I need to include the sarcasm thingy?

sarcasm

[WinkyDink]

9. Yes, you did.

[awoke_in_2003]

11. it flew over my head, too...

but only because I am surrounded by people down here that would agree with what you said.

[saras]

14. Yes - proposals like this, completely serious ones - are floated all the time.

It's sufficiently stupid and loophole-riddled to pass for a proposed law. It's not the right sort of curdled-vomit language to be an actual bill, though, but I bet you could get substantial support for it.

[awoke_in_2003]

10. Bingo. nt

[hfojvt]

3. the awesome thing is - Perry will pay the highest tax

rimshot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Perry_(American_football)

[TalkingDog]

4. Bahaha! Triple Score.

n/t

[hlthe2b]

5. yes... let's just beat those poor impoverished families all the way...

into oblivion. Hell, they probably have a bigger, older, less efficient refrigerator to feed those kids. Why do they need one to begin with. Hell a little food poisoning is good for 'em, right? What doesn't kill you can only make you stronger--didn't Ayn Rand say that or something like that?






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(and lest one should miss the point..... :sarcasm:)

[awoke_in_2003]

13. and don't forget...

ramen noodles don't need refrigeration.

[REP]

15. Nietzsche, not Rand

What does not kill me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1888

[hlthe2b]

17. Was being facetious....

yes, of course... ;)

[Sherman A1]

6. Is this like the tax on the number of doors in a house?

I believe that I learned about that one at Colonial Williamsburg, but it may have been somewhere else. :toast:

[KT2000]

7. 97% of poor people

have refrigerators and 3% do not have refrigerators. I would suggest we charge those who do not have refrigerators an increased amount. I mean - who do they think they are, living in cars,cardboard boxes and what not. In the winter they are getting refrigeration for free - sheesh!

[awoke_in_2003]

12. I spewed coke...

when watching Stewart called them "food chilling mf'ers". But thinking about it- as I said upstream, many here in the US think that way.

[KT2000]

16. Yes - that's the

really scary part.

[WinkyDink]

8. You've heard of "electricity bills"?