Reason's Sequester Subscription Special: Save 2.3% on a Year's Worth of Reason!
In order to demonstrate the devasatating affects of automatic federal spending cuts, Reason is happy to offer a special Sequestration subscription rate. Depending on how you figure the cuts, the sequester will trim as much as $85 billion out of a $3.6 trillion budget for fiscal year 2013.
You already know how awful the sequester will be. Among its terrifying effects on a country still struggling after spending trillions of borrowed money on bailouts, stimulus, and dysfunctional fighter jets:
- The National Zoo may have to postpone "the planned acquisition of cheetahs for [a] research facility in Front Royal, [Virginia]."
- Janitors at the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. will "have less pay. The janitors, the security guards. They just got a pay cut," according to President Obama.
- "It just means a lot more children will not get the kinds of services and opportunities they need, and as many as 40,000 teachers could lose their jobs," according to Education Secretary Arne Duncan, "There are literally teachers now who are getting pink slips, who are getting notices that they can't come back this fall."
In solidarity, we are cruelly slashing 2.3 percent off our normal price of $14.97, which means we will receive 34 cents less per annual subscription. So you can now get a year's worth of Reason - 11 issues - for just $14.63! This rate is good for new subscribers, existing subscribers, and folks who want it via Kindle, Nook, Sony, and other e-readers.
This offer won't last forever - just like the sequester cuts, which the government is likely to reverse as soon as the Dems and Reps can come together in a face-saving, free-spending manner.
So don't delay - and make sure to use this special link to lock in your unconscionably cruel savings of 2.3 percent!
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Austerity never works.
You'll regret this.
Oh, the austerity!
I suppose I'll have to re-up my subscription since being personally featured in the recent issue.
My latest issue's still sitting on the tank waiting for its turn to be opened. Where are you in it? Perhaps I will move it up in the pecking order.
Shouldn't you increase the price and then slash the increases?
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and then slash modestly trim the increase
"Slash" sounds much too action verby for sequestration.
The Federal government's budget via the wonder of Baseline Budgeting, automatically increases 7% each year.
By Federal Logic (a peculiar kind) Reason's price should increase each year by 7%, or from $14.97 to $16.01.
Thus a 2.3% "slash" of $16.01 will raise the price from $14.97 to $15.66.
Monocapalypse!!!!!!!
Re-subscribed thanks to this. I hope you're happy though, Reason. This kind of austerity is going to cause you to have to lay off 85% of your staff and 98% of the commentariat. What will happen then?
and 98% of the commentariat. What will happen then?
You don't want to know what Warty does when he's alone!
A "pay cut" is when you get less money for doing the same amount of work. Getting 80% less money for doing 80% less work is not a pay cut. It's a work cut, which is also known as a furlough. And those janitors aren't even getting a furlough.
But what does it matter. Anyone who believes Obama's words this late in the game is not going to be swayed by definitions or facts.
98% of the commentariat. What will happen then?
Virtue is its own reward.
It's not a real sequester sale unless you threaten to also cut services. I suggest Friday Funnies.
Seconded.
Since when does a 2.3% cut equal 34 cents? A 2.3% cut obviously equals $4 trillion over the next few eternities.
Good point, you should always report at least 10-year figures without spelling that out.
Lest we forget the 170 million jobs that will surely be lost?!
Wait.. people actually subscribe to the magazine.. i mean it's all here on the internet... no offense reason...