So there has been some legal shenanigans going on about whether Pringles should be taxed or not. The latest is that they should.
This is exactly the same as the bolts and screws thing I wrote about ages ago.
Obviously I don’t like tax and the fact that the money is being stolen in the first place. But that isn’t what really irritates me about this. What bothers me is you have all these lawyers and judges and appeal courts and politicians and journalists and bloggers all talking about how potato-y Pringles are. It’s a waste of human life.
Let’s take all the legislators and lawyers and tax accountants and set them to work doing something useful, like curing cancer.
I know, I know, it’s too late for them. But imagine if “tax accountant” wasn’t an available career path. So many people might have made something good out of their lives. No disrespect to tax accountants is intended (I know at least one personally). You’re filling an important hole that needs to be filled. But why can’t the bastards just stop digging the holes in the first place?
If I were the Pringles CEO I’d start selling 15% fewer Pringles in the same sized tube for the same price with a big red label saying “this many Pringles stolen by the government”. The shareholders might not like it but I’d get a kick out of it.