Here I’ve been trying to step up the blog output, and I’ve already hit the wall. Things are crazy at work today, so I don’t know how much I’ll get to post today. In the meantime, here’s an interesting tidbit. SayUncle has blogged a couple of times about Tennessee’s tax stamps for illegal drugs. Well, […]

You read about it in the paper, sometimes, and you see it on television almost all the time, but life in center-city Memphis can sometimes be awful. I don’t know what to say when I read about stuff like this.

In an update to Tennessee’s tax on illegal drugs scoring its first booty, I have additional correspondence from someone alleging to be Jerry [redacted]. He tells me that the police first entered the home looking for a runaway girl. They then entered the home the following day by kicking the door down. They had no […]

I blogged here about Tennessee’s tax on illegal drugs claiming its first booty. A man claiming to be Jerry [redacted](the person whose house was seized for non-payment of the tax that they won’t even let you pay) left some comments there: The house is worth about $90,000 and I owe $71,000 on it. They taxed […]

Mark reports that Tennessee’s taxes on illegal drugs are working as expected: A Bloomington Springs house and the land it sits on yesterday became the first real estate in Tennessee to be seized for unpaid tax on illegal drugs. The property belongs to Jerry [redacted], and the tax is for the marijuana crop that law […]

Regarding Tennessee’s tax on illegal drugs, a commenter over at Michael Silence’s blog writes: The Department of Revenue claims that to date nobody has attempted to voluntarily pay this tax. I would like to point out that this is untrue. I attempted to voluntarily pay this tax on January 6, but all of my attempts […]

Any of my Tennessee readers know the street value of 42.5 grams of marijuana in Knoxville? Actually, can someone translate that into some useful measure for me too (such as joints)? I’m not up on drug values since I don’t do drugs but I am thinking of heading down to the local Tennessee Department of […]

I’ve yammered about Tennessee’s stupid new law requiring those that deal in illegal drugs to buy a tax stamp before. It serves only as a tax on stupid people or as another crime to charge someone with in the ever expanding war on drugs. Surprising to no one, is the fact that drug dealers aren’t […]

After all, the post is called Uncle Bait. One of the Brutal Huggers (I can’t tell them apart) writes: Asset forfeiture is a way for the government to take your property. Regardless of whether you’ve committed a crime, they can (and have!) seize cash, cars, houses, computers, and anything else whether they can carry it […]

So, it looks like two candidates have stepped up to the plate to challenge Obama. What’s important is their positions on issues, right? Wrong. What’s important to the AP is that they are both black. The AP mentions their stances on issues at the bottom thusly: Keyes opposes abortion and gay rights, wants to replace […]

Quote: “For us to be different by $140 billion is nothing,” said the director of the Congressional Budget Office, dismissing the controversial discrepancy between his estimate of the prescription drug benefit’s cost and Medicare actuaries’ figure. As long as us tax payers are picking up the tab, it’s immaterial. I figure the discrepancy costs each […]

First up, the new seat belt law would allow police to pull you over if they see that you’re not buckled up. Under the old law, they’d ticket you for it only if they pulled you over for something else. Gov. Bredesen, who says he’ll sign the bill, said: ”I understand the issue of personal […]

G. Hayduke attempts to warn people about allying themselves with gun owners. S/He implies that all of us gun-toting types are backwoods hicks who dream fondly of taking the nation back to the 18th century. Of course, s/he spends (at my count) six paragraphs describing the characteristics of us gun-nuts and one making the point […]

Two abysmal offerings today, first is this: An 89-year-old woman could be evicted from her home of more than 50 years for missing one tax payment of $572 on her South Hanover Twp. property. Helene Shue’s red farmhouse and 41 acres of land along Route 39 — about two miles from Hersheypark — were appraised […]

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