Quality of death [was: quality of life...]

[Alberto Monteiro]

Nick Arnett wrote:
>
>> So, no hope that The Governator will become POTUS?
> 
> Hope?  Hope???
> 
> You mean "No danger that the Governator will become POTUS?"
>
:-)
 
> No, there isn't... short of a change in the law.
> 
> Even though I'll acknowledge that he hasn't turned out to be nearly 
> as bad as many of us feared, I hope his political career ends right 
> where it is.
> 
Politics is addictive. I don't remember any political figure who
choses to quit.

> His latest proposal is to balance our state budget by borrowing from 
> future lottery revenue.  How is that even remotely conservative, 
> anyway?  I guess because it isn't a tax, even though many call the 
> lottery "the stupidity tax."    Not that there's any visible 
> solution to our budget troubles.
> 
But, if I understand anything from Economics, isn't the "stupidity tax"
always at its maximum? Meaning that any 0.1% increase in the tax will
make betters change from the legal lottery to illegal lotteries or
(legal) private gambling?

Here in Brazil, the bloodthistyness of the g*vernment is always
checked by smuggling and falsification.

Alberto Monteiro

PS: changed the subject to a La Femme Nikita reference. Also,
death and taxes...