Way back when, in December we were cutting our teeth on how to blog. We blogged about SPLOST Taxes, if you remember SPLOST are special purpose local-option sales tax where the population gets to vote on whether or not to pay a tax for something. We thought it might be time for us to think about what things we would like to vote on whether or not to pay taxes for.
1. The U.S. Government gave some people with a lot of letters behind their names at Columbia University $606,000 to do a study on the effects of online dating. We would like a chance to do a study on the trend moving to dating over the iPhone and whether or not someone who uses an Android is compatible with an iPhone user. For $600K we could even do a follow up on whether or not modern Blackberry users will end up as spinsters with a dozen cats. However, if we are not to be awarded this chunk of change, then we would like to vote no on this spending.
2. The U.S. Government gave $55,660 to Kriemhild Dairy Farms to pay for packaging for their butter. This definitely should have gotten the people's approval. It would have been acceptable for Country Crock, but anything else is Government waste.
3. Ottawa paid $83,000 to promote a Bluegrass festival in New Richmond. Considering that Bluegrass is a southern Appalachian phenomena, Quebec possessing a small bit of the mountain range is no reason to drop that kind of cheddar by the government. The only feasible reason for Ottawa to shell out $83,000 to promote a music festival would be if it featured Sebastian Bach fronting for the Cowboy Junkies. Then it would be justifiable.
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