CRizaGle!

my favorite is Bogaard's Septmeber 2007 letter to Boxer where he asks her not to vote for a permanent ban on internet taxes and waxes on about how a tax on internet access isn't really a bad thing...and then he tells the PSN two months later that he was "surprised" to learn that Measure D taxed the Internet. Yeah right. The video of Pasadena's troll-like Measure D lawyer ratting out Pasadena to the Sierra Madre City Council is also good.

My favorite is the overblown hysterical verbiage against the thing, even after a court washed their mouths out with judicial lye-soap -- which suggests the opposition is more about throwing one's weight around to prove one can than any notions of good government . . . and I wasn't for the tax before I visited the Wayne/Martin site, but I'm suspicious of the opposition now . . .

Well the Court approved rebuttal is in the Sample ballot and here is what it says: "Measure D is a new tax trap on telephone service. Currently, it's illegal to tax Internet access. Taxes could be applied to email, web surfing, computer gaming, file downloading, text messaging and any other activity resulting from a tranmission of "voice, data, audio, video or any other information". Pasadena claimed it outlawed a tax on "initial access" to the Internet so they got language associates with "access" removed from the rebuttal. But even Pasadena's own lawyers admit it is designed to tax Internet USE so they never even asked for the langauge above to be removed. Read it and weep. Measure D is a tax on Internet usage....that is a cold hard fact.

Isn't that typical? Dare to question the goofy political machine that thinks it owns Pasadena and immediately the character assassination starts. Why don't you be suspicious of City Council members that declared an imminent financial emergency in order to get Measure D on the ballot while they hid the fact that they were sitting on a $25 million general fund surplus?

*Snort* No one in the "goofy political machine" would care to have the support of this outsider . . . do 'em more harm then good, I'd say. But for all that, the Anti-D rant loses creditability exactly because it is a histrionic rant . . . You catch more flies with zen-like calm than screechy screeds . . .