What utter morons...

At what point do we tell these dipshits that enough is enough? Like a cigarette tax or the lottery, this will be highly regressive, and worse, a naked grab for more revenue to avoid the common sense reckoning that spending cuts represent. Show me a study that shows a tax on soda reduces obesity - betting you can't, cause it hasn't been done.

When times were good - governments spent like there was no tomorrow, creating and supporting a permanent underclass that has known no patronage beyond the local, state, and federal governments that support them. There was no thought to putting money away for the inevitable bad times, and now that they're here, rather than starve leviathan, they are desperately looking for new ways to keep the party rolling.

Come November, the music stops. I'm hoping none of these idiots finds a chair...

in reference to: Merkel Loses Political Clout in Germany Over Handling of Crisis - WSJ.com (view on Google Sidewiki)