Here's a modest suggestion for improving the roads in and around the Hampton Roads area. And it's an idea that I'm sure will appeal to the cracked staff at the local papers who are constantly advocating one tax after another to pay for our road construction program.
My brilliant idea: A sales tax on the Virginian Pilot.
Ta...daaaaa!
Now before you click away from this page let's run the numbers. The Virginian Pilot has a paid daily circulation of about 200,000. Let's say that a sales tax of 50 cents per paper is imposed. That would bring in over $36 million dollars a year! That's more than $3.5 billion over ten years!
Who could possibly object?
Wouldn't you pay an extra 50 cents a day to line your birdcage or wrap your fish?
Say YES!
And the beauty of this idea for the Libertarians among us is that the tax is purely voluntary. If you don't buy the Pilot, you won't pay the tax. Do you like it?
Say YES!
And the people at the Pilot can't possibly object because they don't have to pay the tax and they are in favor of new taxes to pay for new roads. Is this idea brilliant or what?
Say YES!
Thank you!!!!
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