Better Than Porn for Pistols

I found an interesting plank from Mary Carey’s gubernatorial platform:

I will coordinate the state’s unemployment and jury systems, so that anyone who applies for unemployment will instantly be called for jury duty. This will save California state and local governments millions of dollars, because we won’t have to pay for jury duty. It will also relieve those with jobs from the stress of serving on lengthy juries.

At first it sounds a little intriguing. After all, if we’re going to have unemployment, we might as well try to get something in return.

Then again, do we really want whole juries composed of the unemployed?

Posted by PJ on Aug 18, 2003 | Comments |

3 comments posted

  1. Posted by Stephen s. - 08/18/2003

    She also has a plan to tax breast implants. I’m assuming she means all future breast implants (and taxing the operation as a “service” and the implant as a “good” — in the case of a porn star, maybe it’s a “capital good.”) But I think she might be able to balance the California budget if she just makes the tax retroactive to all existing breast implants, too.

    Not that new taxes are a good idea or anything . . .

  2. Posted by Rich - 08/19/2003

    and I thought Arnold was the only candidate with huge cans

  3. Posted by John Marcotte - 08/25/2003

    I seem to recall a case where a stripper was able to take her breast implants as a business-related tax deduction, so there is some precedent to avoid paying taxes using breast implants.

    But I’m not sure how it will work to “tax the goods” so to speak…

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