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It's the taxes on beer and ammo that keeps Texans living in poverty.

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Or is this really a plot by Al Queda to trick Americans into getting cancer? Step 1: Attack WTC & Pentagon; Step 2: Repubicans take over and lower "sin" taxes; Step 3 : Americans start dropping like fatwahs at a hooker convention; Mission Accomplished.

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Folks, the usa is done, as has been said before. I just listened to a coworker call the McDonald's complaint line . His complaint? They messed up his large size big-MAC meal, with Apple pie by salting his fries when he said no salt. He said it is bad for his high blood pressure, yet he goes every other day. Yes, the salt was the problem with that scenario. This is why we're fat, folks.

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Guess this bill is his birthday present.

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Next up: Free Hookers and Blow

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You are referring, of course, to his portrayal of Thor in "Adventures in Babysitting".

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Oscar the Grouch worth? Oscar Madison worthy? Or do you mean <i>The</i> Oscar: Veal Oscar.

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So things are getting better for them.

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They don't call themselves "The One (or maybe it's Two) Star State" for nuthin'.

Repubicans used to brag about how Texas and other like-minded states balanced their budgets and had low taxes and were libertarian paradises. The economy has splashed some cold water on those notions, but the TP'ers have got a stranglehold on conservative politics. Do I catch a whiff of default in the (smokeless) air?

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I agree. Texas' understanding of freedom is not like anyone else's. For example, their Freedom of Information Act is about keeping students free from information -- about sex, history, mathematics, Demoncrats. And their Freedom of Religion covers both Protestants and Catholics.

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It'll come after the right to bear arms in prison. If the Second Amendment means anything, it's the right to defend yourself in the sanctity of your own cell.

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I once saw an old cowboy movie where the heroes were hiding from the bad guys when a rattlesnake entered the hidey hole. The couldn't shoot the snake since it would give away their position, so one of the cowboys spit his chaw at it. I think I was 8 and I thought that was the coolest thing. Not surprisingly, my mom wouldn't let me chew. I owe that woman a great debt.

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Good news for mouth, tongue, and jaw cancer advocates. Well done philosopher kings of Texas!

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Eric Cantor should come have a talk with him, about how <strike>lobbyist money </strike>chewing tobacco is kosher.

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"Dan Mulvaney, the director of government affairs for the tobacco company Swedish Match, said that since the 2009 law went into effect, sales of loose-leaf tobacco plummeted 50 percent"

yeah, god forbid people use less of a carcinogenic substance.

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<i>Texas is going to have to solve this shortfall sooner or later.</i> Not as long as there are still taxes to cut. The more you cut, the more you make, or so I've been told.

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