As we noted earlier this morning, the mayor of Seattle is expanding his “soda tax” to cover diet pop1 because apparently minorities drink more sugar-sweetened pop than honkey does.
And the tax – which was ostensibly about taxing people into health – became a matter of crushing white privilege.
As commenter Mammathus Primigenius noted in the comment section, the idea that upper middle class honkeys drink diet pop is sooooo 1986.
If the Mayor of Seattle (and let’s be honest, Minneapolis will want to keep up with the social justice joneses; it’s the city’s one productive industry) wants to stick it to honkey, I think we need to create a list of things that are genuinely associated with his and Betsy Hodges’ main voting bloc upper-middle-class urban “white privilege”.
I’ll start things out. You feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments. I’ll send them to the Mayor when we’re done:
- Kombucha
- Coconut Oil
- Raw Denim
- Beard-care products
- Any coffee or tea beverage that includes more than coffee or tea
- Riding bicycle paths
- Skateboarding
- Art crawls
- Skiing and snowboarding
- Yoga classes and accessories
- Four year private colleges
- Membership fees in “gun safety”, environmental and animal rights groups and the ACLU.
- Subarus
- Whole Foods goods of any and all types
- Doulas
- Anything purchased from Etsy
Carry on!
I only buy one bottle of kombucha every year or two.
It takes that long for the scoby to die.
https://www.instructables.com/id/Making-Kombucha-the-easy-way/
Hemp clothing! Hemp leaves processed into consumable and smokable form!
Birkenstocks, maybe?
Definitely tax the hell out of art crawls. I am for this.
Instagram posts
Doc Martens
Patchouli oil
How about Tweets?
“How about Tweets?”
Brilliant.
On a serious note, blacks get mega-screwed on Social Security.
Having actuarial systems not run on actual actuarial principles always screws someone, somehow.
All work boots, sandals, etc. that are styled to look like wing tip shoes.
Second hand manual typewriters
Steampunk anything
Subscriptions to The New Yorker
20% surtax of all receipts at Restoration Hardware
I would like an exemption on tea beverages containing something other than tea for Arnie Palmers, however, because they are delicious.
A nominal tax on Mitch’s oversensitive moderation filter might also be in order. Can’t understand why my last comment landed there.
Various forms of fusion cuisine. Urban lofts.
Maybe just get “Stuff White People Like” and tax the heck out of it?
Subarus
And Volvos.
Urban livestock (usually chickens)
Neighborhood gardening
Those free “little libraries”
Those “All Are Welcome Here” rainbow/heart yard signs
Hair products: gel, dye, wax
Martinis
Sushi
Pho
Bicycles
Tiny Homes! Vespa scooters!
LOL I love this.
attn: MPR THIS IS NEWS lol
“Tiny Homes”
https://theestablishment.co/the-troubling-trendiness-of-poverty-appropriation-4d3681406320
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/04/26/now-moving-into-one-of-those-tiny-houses-is-offensive-and-has-a-name-poverty-appropriation/
Composting toilets! (ewww…..)
Come to think of it, heavy punitive taxes for composting toilets just might have a serious health benefit, unlike the tax on soda. On the flip side, Swiftee might point out that this will have the “bad” effect of reducing death rates of leftist hippies. :^)
MPR
PBS/TPT/CPB
anything from Trader Joe’s
“Tiny homes” are also known as “trailers.” If you buy a “tiny home,” and you need to put it on a rented piece of land with road access, water, gas, and septic tank hookups, maybe with a nearby laundromat, that piece of land will not be in a place called a “tiny home” park.
Mayor of Seattle drops his bid for reelection and announces the end of his political career amid allegations he sexually abused four teenage boys
Ed Murray announced on Tuesday morning he will step down on December 31
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4489728/Mayor-Seattle-drops-bid-reelection-amid-scandal.html#ixzz4geiZyPmz
People shouldn’t eat sugar. It’s not good for them.
From MP’s link:
“Murray, a Democrat who became Seattle’s first openly gay mayor when he was elected in 2013, vehemently denied the claims and said they ‘paint me in the worst possible historic portraits of a gay man.’ ”
I dunno bout that. Isnt raping boys a pre-requisite for white men who want the Democrat endorsement?
In any case, he’s in the running for HRC’s Terry Bean founders award.
MP, point well taken, but of course the ones I’m thinking about have cedar paneling not held together with formaldehyde. Along these lines, all that wood paneling instead of sheetrock probably makes them something of a firetrap. (my sauna just burned, and guess what covered the parts that mostly survived?)
So taxing them, again, might have the beneficial/detrimental effect of keeping more hippies alive.
bikebubba on May 10, 2017 at 9:25 am said:
MP, point well taken, but of course the ones I’m thinking about have cedar paneling not held together with formaldehyde. Along these lines, all that wood paneling instead of sheetrock probably makes them something of a firetrap.
But that’s part of the attraction. The building codes are often looser for “foundationless houses.” That is, I believe, the technical term used to refer to both trailers and tiny homes in most jurisdictions. In my state foundationless houses can’t get an occupancy permit. No occupancy permit, no mortgage.
No homeowners insurance, not mortgage.
I like the idea of a small house, with permanent water, power, and sewage hookups. But most “small houses” are in the same class as trailers.