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Headline of the Decade

Jesse Walker | 10.11.2009 3:02 PM

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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  1. Kryten   16 years ago

    What is this, Fail Magazine?

  2. GILMORE   16 years ago

    I suspect thats a form of DRINK!

  3. 24AheadDotCom   16 years ago

    That's cute, but - after a good hour of searching - I found this as the first hit:

    The commissioners hope that an intense, 10-month public-information campaign that hits media, the general public, the county's own workers and specific groups will convince people that they're getting a lot of county services for their money. That could encourage support for the county-wide income tax, which would generate $70 million annually to fund current and additional public safety services.

    (Technical tip: I searched for "matt cooper" county advertise. It takes years to perfect skills like that.)

    1. Jesse Walker   16 years ago

      You mean there's a story behind the headline? I never would have imagined!

      1. Tulpa   16 years ago

        Lonewacko is just trying to balance the anti-intellectual nature of libertarians.

    2. rst   16 years ago

      So their government is buying propaganda to influence the political process, and that should make people feel better?

    3. Hugh Akston   16 years ago

      after a good hour of searching

      Get a life, Lonewhacko.

      Also, Shut the Fuck Up.

      1. Jack Wood   16 years ago

        While your looking things up check the rules of capitalization.

    4. hmm   16 years ago

      Years of what?

      That is the important question.

  4. James Anderson Merritt   16 years ago

    County-wide income tax? We need to pull the income tax weed out by its roots and spray the ground with herbicide. Here in California, a former state assemblyman representing my area was a big proponent of local income tax. Luckily, he was termed out before he could get very far on that plan. Yet one more reason why "Term Limits Are Your Friend" (unless you are a dynasty-building, big-spending pol, that is).

  5. Episiarch   16 years ago

    LoneIdiot, I was hoping you could answer a question for me, because I had to speculate in the other thread. Who do you prefer: Blair, Tootie, Natalie, or Jo? Maybe Mrs. Garrett? Don't be embarrassed--just because you religiously watch the WNBA doesn't make you a macrophiliac.

    1. Nipplemancer   16 years ago

      i'd like a three way with Jo, Mrs. Garrett, and myself.

  6. Lester Hunt   16 years ago

    24Ahead: I too found that article. So the county is spending taxpayer money to persuade the taxpayers to give them more money. Is that even legal?

  7. Fist of Etiquette   16 years ago

    You gotta spend money to make money.

    1. IceTrey   16 years ago

      You gotta spend stolen money to steal more money.

  8. John-David   16 years ago

    STFU LoneWacko.

  9. Voros McCracken   16 years ago

    The real issue is, they likely don't need an extra dime to raise a county income tax.

    What they need is to avoid getting tossed out on their asses in the next election if they do it. So it seems to me it's a form of spending tax money on your re-election campaign.

  10. Kramer   16 years ago

    And they're the ones writing it off.

  11. sage   16 years ago

    That's cute, but - after a good hour of searching -

    -You found a set of balls, and even thought they're not yours, at least you found a set?

    -You realized that it's no big deal you have no life at all?

    -You found your meds that you haven't been taking for the last two years?

    -You secretly have a fetish for the chicas? And perhaps even the chicanos? (NTTAWWT)

    Shut your gorilla mask, lonehacko.

  12. hmm   16 years ago

    I figured Reason would have done an article on Ardi by now. Considering this is a hotbed of atheistness.

    1. Tulpa   16 years ago

      St Damien of Molokai has first dibs.

      1. hmm   16 years ago

        One of his miracles was curing a nun of gas. Not impressed. Curing me of gas after a good night out ended with a Slinger from EatRite. Impressive.

  13. Tulpa   16 years ago

    Just noticed: the URL says "headline of the year" while the title is Headline of the Decade. Make up your mind, Walker!

    1. Jesse Walker   16 years ago

      Heh. I changed the headline on the grounds that the story didn't actually take place this year.

  14. J Dunshee   16 years ago

    This headline is from the Jan 26 2006 issue of the Eugene Register-Guard in Lane County Oregon.

    That's a really "blue" county and this is just an example of the kind of thinking that goes on.

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