Eat the Tall
At first blush, I was against Greg Mankiw's modest proposal to tax by height, admittedly because I am very tall and the explicit target for the maximum tax rate. But then I thought about it, and I realized, my life is awesome, and yes, it is awesome because I am tall. So, really, I am fine with paying more taxes - especially since I am well past the 6'1" height he sets for the highest tax bracket, and so my awesomeness overfloweth.
Labels: economics
posted by Mike Beversluis at
Thursday, May 03, 2007
4 Comments:
Rather than tax the awesomely tall, I think you should just be required to provide some useful service to society, such as wearing cellular antennas on your head.
BTW, congrats on your awesome tallness!
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Unknown, at 04 May, 2007 08:37
*I provide shade for small villages.
*I can reach things on high shelves.
*I can report on the weather "up there."
*I provide schadenfreude for shorter people sitting in coach class airlines seats next to me.
*I can serve as the basis for one of the greatest Simpsons's sketches ever
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Mike Beversluis, at 04 May, 2007 09:56
Yes, well, to paraphrase David Cohen:
“I am a good person if I help the short. I help the short by arguing that the Government should tax tall people like Mike Beverluis more and give the money to the short. I am a good person. I'm also just below average height”
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Anonymous, at 04 May, 2007 12:42
I was going to add the influence I exert in giving some short guys Napoleon complexes*, spurring them on to great achievement, but in looking at the, you know, totality of the situation, it's a push, e.g., the whole march to Moscow thing.
*Napoleon may have been of average height for the time.
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Mike Beversluis, at 04 May, 2007 13:41
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