I know most of you are probably interested in retired Gen. Wesley Clark's announcement that he will enter the Democratic Presidential Primary. Or at least you are avidly following events in the wake of the Ninth Circuit's decision to enjoin California's recall election.
I, by contrast, am monitoring the status of a measure to tax espresso drinks in Seattle at the rate of a dime a cup. Seattlites will decide the initiative's fate in today's local election. Count me among those who will be dumping coffee in the Sound to protest this unjust tax if it passes!
The money would fund early childhood programs, but what's the use if you can't get your act together in time to drive the kids to daycare?
UPDATE: "Latte Tax Creamed," reports the Seattle Times! Liberty maintains a foothold in Ecotopia, as the espresso excise goes down two-to-one in yesterday's election.
Posted by Marie Gryphon on September 16, 2003Does the Coffee-dumping guy realize that the Boston Tea Party participants dressed up as Indians, and as such would not have been wearing wigs and tri-corner hats?
Tim,
He must have attended one of those failing public schools.
Posted by: Marie on September 16, 2003 3:20 PM