A Hard Act to follow - not to mention...Super High Class

Now, here, again, is Lady Ga Ga, about whom we have written in this Column before.  This Time, a Super High Class Act, hard to follow, smoking Pot on Stage, in Amsterdam where, of course, smoking Pot is legal although, one should  add, a recent Regulation prevents non Dutch Citizens from buying the Stuff...they cannot buy it although they are allowed to smoke it.

And that's what Lady Ga Ga just did, after dismissively discarding what appeared to be some Stuff not of ,,Acceptable Quality.''   Goodness forbid that she would smoke something of ,,Inferior Quality.''

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3426ahYnoGs

(Click on the Link above to watch Lady Gaga dismissively throwing a Pack to the Side, then choosing a Joint and lighting it up)

Fortunately for some but unfortunately for her, however the Images of her smoking the Stuff that ,,changed her Life'' also managed to make her look rather pathetic.

Maybe she had forgotten her ,,Meat Outfit'' at home.

 

Interesting Argument - Billionaires should be taxed less because taxing them more inhibits their Inclination to make Charitable Donations

An interesting Argument comes from Billionaire Stephen Ross, Chairman of The Related Companies, who is saying, in Effect that a Limitation on the Ability to deduct his Charitable Donations from his Income Tax would influence how much Money he would give to Charities (of his Choice, we might add).

http://bottomline.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/23/14016571-tax-hikes-a-threat-to-charitable-giving-say-billionaires?lite


Not all Billionaires agree with this Argument.  However, taking Mr. Ross's Argument ,,ad Absurdum'' would mean that he (and other Billionaires like him), decides on the Distribution of Income, whether it be earned in the Form or Wages or, more likely, through other Sources; how the Part of the Income which is not kept by him (and others like him) is distributed either in Terms of funding Government Expenses or ,,Charities'' of his choosing.

We all are, I think, for reducing of Waste in Government; certainly one Way to accomplish this would have been to keep Congress more Days in Session, more than the 4 Days in August and the 8 Days in September.

However, not all of the 300 Million or so Souls who live in the United States, most likely, not a Majority of them, would agree that 400 or so Billionaires, whose Billions came out of the United States Economy (or elsewhere) but are certainly asseted as Holdings of United States Citizens/Residents, should benefit from lower Tax Rates or unlimited Charitable Deductions, in a Country confronting a catastrophic Budgetary Problem, solely for the Purposes of these Individuals having the Luxury of deciding how to distribute some of their Assets as they please.