A Tax Even Tea Baggers Love to Support. Confederate Tax Could Save Our Economy!

[evildevil]

Experts Suggest Rebranding All Taxes as a form of Pension Plan to Feed the Ghost of Confederate Soldiers. Predict a 300% Collection Rate.

Alabama Tax Supports Confederate Memorial Park While Other Sites Suffer

The last of the more than 60,000 Confederate veterans who came home to Alabama after the Civil War died generations ago, yet residents are

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[theartema]

State Rep. Alvin Holmes, a black Democrat who's been in the Legislature since 1974, said he thought funding for the park had been slashed.

"We should not be spending one nickel for that," said Holmes, of Montgomery. "I'm going to try to get rid of it."

Was it really necessary to comment on the rep's race on two occasions in this article? In b4 bitchy white folks start bawwing about how those racist black people just hate white history so much. War of Northern Aggression zomg!

[moropus]

I fail to understand how this tax survived being brought into public view. But living in the South several years did not make me one of them.

There are several Souths. There's the white bigoted South, the Black bigoted South, the we're all brothers South, the slavery never happened South, the it wasn't so bad South, the it will get better if you pretend it didn't happen South, and there's the South where a tax for a racist war is still being put forward as a good thing and people who live in most of them will want to the color of a man with the guts to oppose such a thing.

Then there's the South where people just try to make a living.

So I'm afraid mentioning his race repeatedly is required.

It ought to be turned into a tax for all state parks, but we know it won't. The glorious dead of the fake, glamorous, romantic South get far more hero worship than that.

[evildevil]

The glorious dead of the fake, glamorous, romantic South get far more hero worship than that.

I still dont understand why people glorify what was technically a richman's war, is not like all of them had wealthy plantation owners as ancestors...

[amarettosunset]

I realize that arguing with Southerners nostalgic for ~the Cause~ is about as productive as banging one's head against a brick wall, but seriously. Think about exactly what it is you're honoring and kindly STOP.

[quizzicalsphinx]

The Alabama state constitution is hilarious, y'all. If it was written as pure satire, it'd be right up there with "A Modest Proposal." Unfortunately, it's serious and they're still trying to govern us with it.

[kiri_l]

*eyes section 182... * not going to comment.. not going to.. *flees before commenting*

[chipuni]

Wow. Neither my wife nor I could vote in Alabama...

[mirhanda]

As an Alabama native, I really think they should divide that money up with the other state parks. Share that wealth! Chewacla could really use it, as I'm sure could Cheaha or even Lake Guntersville (although with the lodge, maybe not).

[romp]

Experts Suggest Rebranding All Taxes as a form of Pension Plan to Feed the Ghost of Confederate Soldiers.

Highlight of my day, politically!