WHAT IF?

What would happen if we removed stop signs, stoplights and traffic signs?

How about slower traffic, less accidents, safer streets?

In a never ending quest to make our streets safer and more predictable, we may have actually made them more dangerous and so mind numbingly easy to drive that we enable bad behaviors ... while driving.

Let me reiterate .. the design of our streets may be partially to blame for drivers text messaging.

I've argued something similar - that seat belt usage can encourage more aggressive driving habits.

It's an interesting "what if," but the evidence is anecdotal.

THE PACEMAKER TAX

"In an effort to improve health care, make it more affordable and make it available to more people, President Obama and his minions in Congress are about to slap a tax on pacemakers."

"This will raise the price of pacemakers making the pacemaker less affordable and less available, while forcing people to do without, which will worsen health care."

In engineering, it's a result of the the Laws of Unintended Consequences.

ObamaCare is too complex; too hurried. It's time for Congress to stop, take a deep breath, and start over.

LOOKS LIKE A TAX TO ME

Mandatory health insurance is not a tax; it’s a “personal responsibility principle.”

So personal responsibility is now taxable?

LET THEM DRINK WATER

What a fat tax really means for America.

Via Instapundit.

IT'S NOT A BUG

It's a feature.

IN HIS NARCISSIST’S SERVICE

If only this had been posted on 9/11.

IGNORANCE? OR ARROGANCE?

“We can only conclude that Democrats who support high taxation, larger government, gun control, and rabid environmentalism are either ignorant or arrogant. If ignorant, their liberalism is lamentable but it can be overlooked. If arrogant, their liberalism is unforgivable, for it is practiced to the peril of their own countrymen.”

Read it all.

IT’S NOT A TAX

It's a way to cap employer-provided health benefits.

From the Clinton playbook: Barack Obama and the meaning of “tax.”

ON OBAMACARE OPPONENTS

There’s an old saying, "If you can't blind them with your brilliance, baffle them with your bullsh*t." And if that doesn't work, play the race card. And if that fails ....

"Our country is great because people can say what they think and they believe," [Speaker of the House Nancy] Pelosi added. "But I also think that they have to take responsibility for any incitement that they may cause."

... play the 'fear' and 'violence' cards.

THREE VIDEO CLIPS

From PJTV:

 Why You Should Run For Office
 How the #1 Public University Produces First-Rate Idiots
 Getting Rich Off Racism

Watch them all.