state coffers

Our Governor speaks on selling wine in grocery stores:

I don’t consider it a big issue in the sense of I can’t see any problem with any wine in grocery stores. When Andrea and I travel somewhere on vacation, if we want to go into a grocery store and buy wine, in most places you can.

In pre-Civil War Tennessee, it was pretty straightforward, in exchange for minimal room, food, no legal claim on personhood, and the right to be whipped and have your family torn from you and moved far away from you where you’d never hear from them again, you got to work your whole life so that others could make money. We called that slavery.

So the way I see it, if the state’s going to bleed me try with a 9.25% sales tax (really? I’ll pay you 10 cents on the dollar for the privilege of buying stuff? kewl.) least they can do is use the money for stuff that I need like roads and horse farms and stuff. Anyway, State law mandates that $110 of the sales tax it collects funnels back into a city for every living human being it can lay claim to.