Conservative institute makes the poll tax look like the next best thing since sliced bread

Here’s a great way to raise revenue Virginia, let’s tax those least able to withstand it, college tuition payers.

Doesn’t sound like a good idea does it? If you’re the Thomas Jefferson Institute, however, it sounds like a phenomenal idea, an idea that could assuage the conservative’s never-ending search for ways to balance the financial books, primarily for the benefit of Virginia’s wealthy.

But wait, the brilliant ideas keep rolling out like Ken dolls from a factory wheel.

Here’s a short list of other taxable things in the commonwealth: prescription drugs, legal services, and (wait for it) food stamps. These ideas make the poll tax look like the next best thing since sliced bread!

You’ve got to hand it to the Thomas Jefferson Institute for laying out “gutsy” tax ideas, right? Just as we wouldn’t congratulate John Hinkley for testing how many bullets it takes to assassinate President Reagan, we shouldn’t thank the Thomas Jefferson Institute for throwing around obnoxiously absurd ideas regarding taxation.