Posted on 01/27/2008 12:43:05 PM PST by Lorianne
The Sierra Club is proposing a tax on video games and televisions with the proceeds going to programs that encourage families to get kids off of the couch and into the mountains. Call it “No Child Left Inside.”
Mike Casaus of the Sierra Club says families hiking a mountain trail together are becoming scarce as childhood diabetes and obesity is soaring, which is why the organization is proposing the one-percent tax.
“What we would do with this excise tax on tvs and video games and this type of equipment is to tax part of the problem to fund the solution,” he says.
The Sierra Club believes the bill would bring in about $4 million that could be used for programs like an outdoor classroom to tech children about the outdoors.
Lawmakers killed the same idea last year.
And as soon as people get off the sofa and get out on the trails, they’ll start screaming that too many people are visiting the great outdoors and the trails need to be shut down before the unwashed masses destroy nature forever.
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How about a tax on shrill nanny state scolds?
Is the sierra club running out of wilderness to protect, or something?
“What WE would do with this excise tax”
Yes, I’m sure YOU would LOVE to get your filthy greedy hands on that kind of money, you sick bastard.
Don’t we already tax exercise equipment? Perhaps if we eliminated the tax on exercise equipment that would encourage people to exercise more. Then again-maybe not, but we can do the same thing and lower taxes at the same time.
All that outdoorsy crap causes global warming! The way to minimize your carbon footprint is to sit at home on the couch and subsist on generic oreos bought by the tub load from Wally World.
And who is it that fights the making of any sort of road into the “great outdoors” so that the masses can actually get there?
I propose a Sierra Club tax.
I also propose a tax on those proposing taxes for liberal agendas.
But they only want you to get out and hike on trails that THEY approve of you using. The Sierra Club has been a primary advocate for the designation of wilderness areas, that is, huge tracts of publicly owned land than no one except for a certain, special few — guess who — can use.
And to get to the mountains, the government will tax your fuel and then they'll charge you park entrance fees and taxes like it's some kind of amusement park. And if you step off the path, you'll be in violation and fined.
The late 1950s seem so far away.
Personally I’ve found a bullwhip to be a far more effective means of getting kids to get outside.
Come and get it.
did you ever stop to think that maybe the reason more families aren’t taking wonderful vacations together is because they can’t afford it? probably both parents are working just to pay the bills and maybe on their days off they need to clean the house, grocery shop and do laundry!!
maybe they don’t WANT to trek around the great outdoors and i guess, in this country, its supposed to be THEIR RIGHT to choose NOT to!
Okay, but only if we get to keep their stuff after they fall off the mountain and die ...
The tax is just a money making scheme. It won’t change anything.
I prefer we string them up and watch them dangle in the wind.
The Sierra Homos need to mind their own business.
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