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July 8, 2005
Ensuring The Equality Of The Looting In North Carolina
[UPDATE: A slightly different version of the following appeared in today's Charlotte Observer.]If your neighbor's home is burglarized, is it not fair that you and your home receive the same treatment? If the car of a friend of yours is stolen, should not the thieves steal your car just to make sure that you now don't have some advantage over your friend?
C. William Grafer is a guest columnist for The Charlotte Observer. He seems to think so in his column about a prospective tax on movie tickets...
...Essentially, seeing a movie in a theater has a tax advantage that is not shared by Blockbuster or Best Buy. Renting a movie or purchasing a DVD will incur the wrath of the sales tax, while actually going to the theater to see a movie will not.
Yes. Would anyone have thought of this if North Carolina wasn't facing a budget shortfall? Probably not. But contrary to what the theater industry is arguing, the tax is really just fixing an inequality between movie tickets and other types of movie entertainment.
It is fascinating how one's premises are revealed through positions on concretes. If you share the tribal premise, then of course, you would want everyone to be looted equally.
My immediate response was to stop the looting by the North Carolina government so that there would be no tax on movie theatres -- and we could drop the taxes on your purchases at Blockbuster and Best Buy...and elsewhere.
Crossposted to the Egosphere
Originally from The Charlotte Capitalist (TM), ReBlogged for Meta Blog
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