"You can tax my chocolate when you pry it out of my warm, sticky hands."

_{/actually, I'm okay with this, but then again I'm Canadian}

fark that shiat.

I'm confused...are they going to raise or lower the chocolate ration?

/Winston?

Beatle_Matt: I'm confused...are they going to raise or lower the chocolate ration?

/Winston?

It's an "adjustment"...doubleplusgood!

Beatle_Matt: I'm confused...are they going to raise or lower the chocolate ration?

/Winston?

we have always been at war with candyland.

"Chocolate Public Service has lost its status as a special treat honor and I think that if we charged a tax on it then, over a number of years, we could restore that status"

I have three women in my house. Chocolate is not an optional item. It is necessary for my continued sanity.

Worst tax justification evar

Some sins like smoking and drinking can be taxed because they cost the state money.

Taxing something so that people will appreciate it more is the worst kind of idiocy.

Surprised that the tax didn't pass. Usually there's no freedom that government won't eliminate for your own good.

I wouldn't have complained if the "dumbass" tag had been used.

Haven't we had a similar discussion about soda and cheeseburgers?

And now, your daily fat kid picture.

There is a tax on chocolate. Good, high-quality chocolate costs more.

My list of special treats:
Driving a car
Smoking a cigarette
Firemen extinguishing my burning house

Sure, there's room for chocolate here. Come to think of it, if we started charging a pussy tax, it would become a special treat too and misogyny would end forever.

How about we just charge a tax for being over the median weight for your demo?

Yeah, um no. Chocolate isn't causing our national weight gain problems.

epyonyx: Haven't we had a similar discussion about soda and cheeseburgers?

And now, your daily fat kid picture.

I die laughing every time the Michelin kid makes an appearance.

/I die a lot

jjorsett: Surprised that the tax didn't pass. Usually there's no freedom that government won't eliminate for your own good.

If I were a douche bag I would point out that the Constitution doesn't mention a freedom to chocolate like some douche bags do when I mention other freedoms I don't want to lose. But I agree with you, so I won't.

epyonyx: Haven't we had a similar discussion about soda and cheeseburgers?

And now, your daily fat kid picture.

It's always the same fat kid- mix it up some.

I would like to be a fly on the wall when politicians have their "brainstorming-new-taxes" meeting.

Is there any point when someone says "well... that's quite a leap in logic and strikes me as ridiculous".

My guess is no.

/just came from the coffee tax thread.

"You can't tax my whole city!"

Neo-Marxism rules!

burndtdan Beatle_Matt

"Are they going to raise or lower the chocolate ration?"

"We have always been at war with candyland."

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
CHOCOLATE IS VANILLA

The problem is not chocolate, it's the consumer culture. We should have everything we want! Chocolate, cars, big houses.....What do you mean, we don't value things as highly anymore?

Scrophulous Barking Duck: I have three women in my house. Chocolate is not an optional item. It is necessary for my continued sanity.

This. My wife and my daughter's menstrual cycles have synced up. Sometimes I have to toss a Hershey's chocolate bar into the house before it's safe to enter.

Nemo's Brother: Neo-Marxism rules!


What's even better is having enough basic knowledge to know what it really means.

burndtdan: Beatle_Matt: I'm confused...are they going to raise or lower the chocolate ration?

/Winston?

we have always been at war with candyland Imaginationland.

FTFY.

Imaginay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-tion land.

What's next, a sex tax?

BUT YOU'll NEVER TAKE OUR CHOCOLAAAAAAATE!

cryinoutloud: The problem is not chocolate, it's the consumer culture. We should have everything we want and have it cheap! Chocolate, cars, big houses.....What do you mean, we don't value things as highly anymore?

FTFY.

People still value things they pay more for.

DRTFA, but don't we already have chocolate tariffs?

Rann Xerox: My wife and my daughter's menstrual cycles have synced up.


That's hot!

meat0918: What's next, a sex tax?

Only in Nevada because everywhere else it is illegal.

Hmmm, seems as if I've heard about this somewhere before...



"miniplenty malquoted chocolate rectify"


Oh that's right! They used to ration chocolate in the book, 1984, and then use it as incentive for when the proles behaved themselves. Silly me, how could I have forgotten!

epyonyx: meat0918: What's next, a sex tax?

Only in Nevada because everywhere else it paying for sex is illegal.

Need to proofread before posting.

epyonyx: Haven't we had a similar discussion about soda and cheeseburgers?

And now, your daily fat kid picture.

Clearly, the marshmallow man from Ghost Busters survived the encounter and is alive and well somewhere, pumping out the babies.


Also, chocolate is not a special treat. It is a necessary commodity. If chocolate doesn't happen, men will die. A lot of men. And it definitely won't be death by snu-snu.

brainiac-dumdum: Worst tax justification evar

O RLY?

epyonyx: epyonyx: meat0918: What's next, a sex tax?

Only in Nevada because everywhere else it paying for sex is illegal.

Need to proofread before posting.

The other way was funnier...

LocalCynic: brainiac-dumdum: Worst tax justification evar

O RLY?


Are you implying that you want chocolate to become a veblen good? Hell, why not coffee too? Or all foreign cars? Or ketchup? Hell, why not just tax everything more to help remind the people how good they have it?

LocalCynic: brainiac-dumdum: Worst tax justification evar

O RLY?

this is worse

Bocanegra: LocalCynic: brainiac-dumdum: Worst tax justification evar

O RLY?


Are you implying that you want chocolate to become a veblen good? Hell, why not coffee too? Or all foreign cars? Or ketchup? Hell, why not just tax everything more to help remind the people how good they have it?

I can see cars and diamonds, but chocolate?

Rann Xerox and Scrophulous Barking Duck I feel your pain. Between my teen-aged daughter and the three female teens and their trailer-trash single mom next door this neighborhood gets real noisy every 28 or so days. I came home from work one day and found an ambulance parked across my driveway. The oldest teen next door had gotten herself all hysterical, vapor locked, and fainted in her front yard. A panicked neighbor called 911.

I keep a couple of pounds of semi sweet chocolate bits for emergencies and have learned not to be a Daaaaaaaaaad (roll eyes and then burst into tears here) when the magic moment arrives.

Chocolate is not a luxury around here, it is a basic food group and a necessary component of the household pharmacopia.

Rann Xerox This. My wife and my daughter's menstrual cycles have synced up. Sometimes I have to toss a Hershey's chocolate bar into the house before it's safe to enter.

I've been there. I've made emergency trips to the store for chocolate on a couple of occasions. Of course, it could be worse. A friend of mine actually planned trips each month in order to be out of town at the appropriate time.

I see morans come a dime a dozen still with little change to make it a special case.

As a smoker who rarely eats chocolate, I'd just like to say:

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.

Sounds fantastic.

While you're at it, make it a high enough tax that you can have folks making money on smuggling chocolate into the country to get around the tax. THAT will really show the fatties...

I guess he can push for that next time around.

The black market in Britain NEEDS some stimulus as well, so these are measures that will be sure to get the under the table trade really working over time.

I enjoy eating peanut M&M's whenever I have a really great beer.

Soo much to love...

Tax the shiat out of it because smokers are quitting and/or dying and the government needs the money worse than we do.

Wow, fact following fiction, anyone?






/hotlinked like hot cocoa

il Dottore:

Chocolate is not a luxury around here, it is a basic food group and a necessary component of the household pharmacopia.

It sounds like this is already the case, but you should get all of these females around you to hang out with each other a lot. Their cycles will synchronize and then you can get it all over with in one fell swoop each month. Pheromones rock.

/my roommate started cycling with me when I went off B/C
//that means I'm the alpha
///woot!