Let's see, tobacoo, alcohol, soda and corporate something or other no one can articulate… sounds like some sort of political punchlist that everyone's been instrructed to parrot. Sin taxes are always popular targets, and since they're highly regressive we can do it on the backs of the poor just like the lottery… sort of a clawback of the poor's benefit increases over the past years, right? Oh wait, these ideas are progressive for the most part. Some real money can be raised though. Unfortunately, cigarettes taxes leak to the tribes and internet retailers at the expense of our own… a generous gift at our state's expense.

Soda… you kidding me? Don't you see the slippery slope here. Why don't we create fifty different tax rates and elect commissions or create Authorities to rate and grade… and tax… food products based on populism and political lean at the moment (don't forget we have to exempt NM sugar products). Seriously, this idea has no place in a revenue conversation because it's too small to matter. It raises no significant money, its just on the punchlist because it's on related social agendas. It does help make the tax structure more regressive though, except for those that would continue to buy soda without tax using foodstamps (imagine, punishing only the working poor). This idea needs to go back on the social/behavorial control-through-taxation agenda and not be thought a serious budget matter.

Corporate taxes. Let see, does anyone know anything about this other than the utterance of the word is supposed to have me salivating at the thought of punsihing these nebulous and evil creatures? Regardles, not lots of money here either when the economy is in the toilet, and that's assuming it doesn't discourage investment and create negative economic incentives.

So the punclist has raised far less than $100 million… only $900 million to go! It sucks that we'll end up having to burden some of the financial responsbility of the situation ourselves, but we all got here together and that's what's going to happen through higher taxes and reduced public spending. We're going to have to do better from now on as we can no longer afford the waste and perks of a decadent time.

Let's see, tobacoo, alcohol, soda and corporate something or other no one can articulate… sounds like some sort of political punchlist that everyone's been instrructed to parrot. Sin taxes are always popular targets, and since they're highly regressive we can do it on the backs of the poor just like the lottery… sort of a clawback of the poor's benefit increases over the past years, right? Oh wait, these ideas are progressive for the most part. Some real money can be raised though. Unfortunately, cigarettes taxes leak to the tribes and internet retailers at the expense of our own… a generous gift at our state's expense.

Soda… you kidding me? Don't you see the slippery slope here. Why don't we create fifty different tax rates and elect commissions or create Authorities to rate and grade… and tax… food products based on populism and political lean at the moment (don't forget we have to exempt NM sugar products). Seriously, this idea has no place in a revenue conversation because it's too small to matter. It raises no significant money, its just on the punchlist because it's on related social agendas. It does help make the tax structure more regressive though, except for those that would continue to buy soda without tax using foodstamps (imagine, punishing only the working poor). This idea needs to go back on the social/behavorial control-through-taxation agenda and not be thought a serious budget matter.

Corporate taxes. Let see, does anyone know anything about this other than the utterance of the word is supposed to have me salivating at the thought of punsihing these nebulous and evil creatures? Regardles, not lots of money here either when the economy is in the toilet, and that's assuming it doesn't discourage investment and create negative economic incentives.

So the punclist has raised far less than $100 million… only $900 million to go! It sucks that we'll end up having to burden some of the financial responsbility of the situation ourselves, but we all got here together and that's what's going to happen through higher taxes and reduced public spending. We're going to have to do better from now on as we can no longer afford the waste and perks of a decadent time.

Let's see, tobacoo, alcohol, soda and corporate something or other no one can articulate… sounds like some sort of political punchlist that everyone's been instrructed to parrot. Sin taxes are always popular targets, and since they're highly regressive we can do it on the backs of the poor just like the lottery… sort of a clawback of the poor's benefit increases over the past years, right? Oh wait, these ideas are progressive for the most part. Some real money can be raised though. Unfortunately, cigarettes taxes leak to the tribes and internet retailers at the expense of our own… a generous gift at our state's expense.

Soda… you kidding me? Don't you see the slippery slope here. Why don't we create fifty different tax rates and elect commissions or create Authorities to rate and grade… and tax… food products based on populism and political lean at the moment (don't forget we have to exempt NM sugar products). Seriously, this idea has no place in a revenue conversation because it's too small to matter. It raises no significant money, its just on the punchlist because it's on related social agendas. It does help make the tax structure more regressive though, except for those that would continue to buy soda without tax using foodstamps (imagine, punishing only the working poor). This idea needs to go back on the social/behavorial control-through-taxation agenda and not be thought a serious budget matter.

Corporate taxes. Let see, does anyone know anything about this other than the utterance of the word is supposed to have me salivating at the thought of punsihing these nebulous and evil creatures? Regardles, not lots of money here either when the economy is in the toilet, and that's assuming it doesn't discourage investment and create negative economic incentives.

So the punclist has raised far less than $100 million… only $900 million to go! It sucks that we'll end up having to burden some of the financial responsbility of the situation ourselves, but we all got here together and that's what's going to happen through higher taxes and reduced public spending. We're going to have to do better from now on as we can no longer afford the waste and perks of a decadent time.

The great irony is that it may be stem cell research that unlocks the mystery of congenital selfishness, or the treatment thereof. In that case we'd be facing a major public debate on whether it is moral to force this science on those afflicted.

In any case, I'm quite sad that I may not live long enough to see any of this come to pass. Nevertheless, please join me in praying for this miracle.

I do believe the public is loud and clear, before you furlough or lay off anyone remove all double dippers!