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Published Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 | 1:07 p.m.
Updated Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 | 1:08 p.m.
Assembly Minority Leader Pete Goicoechea, R-Eureka, might want to change his home phone number here pretty soon.
Conservative activist Chuck Muth’s organization has launched a series of robo-calls slamming Goicoechea’s proposal to expand the sales tax to include food.
Dubbing it the “groceries tax,” Muth accuses Goicoechea of wanting to tax people’s “milk and butter and eggs and cheese.”
The robo-call then invites those outraged by the proposed tax to express it directly to Goicoechea by pressing 1 to dial his number. The computer will then connect the call to either Goicoechea’s home (at night) or work number (during the day), both of which Goicoechea has listed publicly on his legislative contact sheet.
Ah, the joys of being a citizen legislator.
Yep, we knew this was coming. The state with the highest sales tax on food? Mississippi. 6 %, last I looked. The most obese state in the Union? Mississippi. The state with the highest dropout rate? Mississippi.
We need to tax food so we are no longer #2 in all the above categories. With mothers forced to buy cheaper, fat laden foods here, there is no doubt that our chubby children will drop out earlier, and help us to be #1 in all categories.
What a great state. Right, Rodger?
They should outlaw those robo calls. An annoying waste of time. With the internet and TV and radio, they don't need to annoy me at home too.
Robo-calls should be illegal. Stupid and pointless.
More robo-cops! Fewer robo-calls!
I am sick of the automated political calls. I blocked my voter registration from being used to contact me by phone. Yet some organizations and candidates do not honor this and I still receive obnoxious robocalls. During the health care debate this year, my answering machine was filled each day with these calls and it prohibited other people I actually wanted to hear from leaving me messages.
And I wish they would stop mailing me political flyers as well - what a waste of money and paper. I do not read them. They go straight into the trash. How can people donate money to the campaigns of these politicians when they waste it on useless advertising that just irritates people?
I wish there were more laws about how politicians and the organizations they hide behind can contact you. But then again, if there were they would probably wouldn't be held accountable for breaking the rules. There are clear rules about political signs and how long you have to clean them up. Are those rules actually enforced? I still see signs littering the landscape for weeks after a candidate is knocked out or the election is over. I guess the laws in Vegas don't apply to the people who make the laws.
Tax food? Only tax and spend nit wits would conceive of such a thing.
Any explanation of why this is wrong is too long to print here and requires intellectual capacity beyond what can be expected from those who support it to comprehend.
But Brass, I thought that the Dems were the tax and spend folks. Goicoechea is a Repub. You must have forgotten the breaks part, as in "tax breaks and spend".
I understand the state needs money and it is squeezing blood from stones; but, to tax the necessary foods we need? If it was sugars and salts and junk food as well as more liquor and cig tax, I would go for it. Not milk from children's mouths.
Cut the salaries of the school board and the administrators. In fact, cut the administrators by half. Then we won't need a new tax to pay for education.