Tuesday, February 19, 2013

The Mother Of All Revenue Enhancements

It seems that the fines against British Petroleum for the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill never stop coming. Every time I turn around there is a new umpteen billions of dollars of fines announced against BP for the Spill.
I’m actually starting to feel sorry for BP but I’m being careful about saying so because I’m well aware that feeling sorry for BP is against Federal Law.
This got me to thinking that there must be a plan in the works to completely finance all the operations of the Federal Government by continuing to impose fines against BP.
This BP Revenue Enhancement Stream will come flowing in, slide right past all our empty lock boxes and be spewed out of Congress before BP realizes that they have become a Non-Profit Corporation. Once they are a Non-Profit it will be OK to like them again.
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Who said our Federal Government does not know what it is doing? Was it me? If so, I wish there were some way I could apologized to Congress for all those bad things I have been saying about it.
My lawyers, however, have advised me to hold off on the apology. They say I should check with them before I issue any apologies because Congress is in the final stages of a tax that is going to be a real revenue enhancer.
This one is truly ingenious. They are going to start taxing Apologies. It’s going to be called the Apologies For America Act (AFAA).
Celebrities and Sports Heroes are especially nervous about the AFAA Tax.
Actually there are some members of Congress that see the AFAA Tax as a much more lucrative source of Revenue Enhancement than even the BP Suck ‘Em Dry Act.
This will never happen but, if the AFAA Tax could be expanded to include Politicians, this source of funding would be truly limitless.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella