Friday, January 25, 2008

Voting in Los Angeles

I was reading about prop. S and became very disturbed when I read the definition of taxable communication services in the Prop. S. Since the tax would apply to many services not currently taxed, it would effectively be a tax hike even though the tax rate lowers to 9%.
Read more:

"Prop S does reduce the tax rate from the invalid 10% rate to a 9% rate. But actually, if the city loses its appeal the rate will be 0%. Prop S also imposes the tax on a host of new electronic communications that were not included before, such as using the internet, DSL, VOIP, PCS and other electronic services"

I don't normally consider myself a "right wing" voter, but I agree with some centrist thinking such as the statement above.
If you don't like to read: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxWoKbGpriE

Monday, January 07, 2008

Idiocracy - the movie

Have you ever noticed that the higher a person's education, the longer they wait to have children? And have you noticed that more educated people tend to have smaller families than their less educated neighbors?
Well, have you ever wondered how this would affect the evolution of humanity?
If the answer to this last question was "huh?", you might already have too many children. If your answer was "Yes, I have thought about that", then you may want to check out this delightful little comedy which has been compared to futurama by at least one youtube critic.
Seriously, this is a cute, witty, smart comedy that is well worth the price of a rental.
See the IMDB Movie Entry for more information.


Save the world, educate your kids.