OT: Anniversary of the "Indiana Pi Bill"

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007, Mike Schwartz (PC Support) wrote:
>> >The basic story is that the Indiana House of Representatives was duped
>> >into passing (unanimously! 67-0) a law stating, among other things,
>> >that the value of pi was, in fact, exactly 3.2.  (Fortunately, the
>> >Indiana Senate did not pass the bill, but apparently only because a
>> >mathematics professor happened to be visiting the legislature at that
>> >time.)
>> 
>> That makes about as much sense as the recent changes in daylight savings
>> time foisted on the U.S. by the brain-dead legislature.
>> 
>> Bill
>
>     This is a bad time to get me going on legislatures.  With the new
>budget, they want us pilots to start paying a fee every time we takeoff,
>land or use any kind of air traffic services.  Right now they are going to
>implement this fee as an extra tax on every gallon of fuel until they figure
>out how to charge us "per use", like Canada does to their pilots.  

You won't go far wrong if you assume that anything done by government is
designed (a) to increase the power and wealth of politicians, (b) to give
taxpayer money to their supporters, and (c) to increase the size of the
bureaucracy.  Lysander Spooner, in his essay ``Trial by Jury'' makes a
strong case that the judiciary is fully in on the game as well.

I've often thought that a solution to this problem is simple.  Only allow
people to vote who are net tax payers.  Tax consumers being parasites in
the system, don't get a say -- and this includes anybody on government
payrolls.

Bill
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