Tuesday, October 25, 2005

taxed texts


The italian Senate is going to discuss some 3,000 items for defining the new Financial maneuver for 2006. Every party has the right (the duty) to propose new cuts in the costs, and of course the most relevant ones are evaluated in a common discussion among all the deputies.
These days the proposals are being evaluated for going into the discussion, so anybody can see what the deputies have proposed.

Amazing! Italy is the land of brainy people! Among others, somebody proposed to get 1 cent of an euro out of ALL sms texts, so believe it or not, to fill the horrendous gap of Italian Financial situation, everyone from 10-yrs old onwards will contribute, when writing any text... What if I send a very long text, splitted in two different texts, will it count as one or should I pay double? Maybe next time I'll send a text to somebody and write "...oh, and say hi to your friends, because I can't send too many texts". Other people who will contribute to the Italian deficit are the graffiti people: 2 euro of taxes out of every spray-can: if they want to ruin my wall, at least they should pay some taxes...

My proposal for new taxes:
1) 1 euro for having too much hair (especially on chest & shoulders), they waste our environment and are difficult to reuse
2) 2 euro for those spitting on the streets, unless they have a bag and a shovel to collect it (avoid sense of repulsion)
3) 1 euro for having mega-bass stereo on your car, 1.5 euro for blue lights under your car (avoid audio-visual waste)
4) 5 euro if you have any of the multitonal rings on your mobile (avoid feeling an idiot with your own beep-beep tone)
5) 3 euro for people overtaking others in the queue (do you want to be served faster? ok, but at least you pay)
6) 0.5 euro any 1 euro collected by beggars on the streets (they are getting my hard-earned, with a lot of sweat of my forehead money without any effort)

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