[Spridgets] Blatant Political Post

Tim Collins thcollin at mtu.edu
Sat Apr 7 19:50:55 MDT 2012


To the folks on the other side of the pond in the (LBC) homeland. We 
feel your pain, we're mad, and not going to take it any longer.

I speak of the Pasty tax.

This from The Daily Mining Gazette newspaper today. 
<http://www.mininggazette.com/page/content.detail/id/524950/Petitioners-protest-pasty-tax.html?nav=5006>http://www.mininggazette.com/page/content.detail/id/524950/Petitioners-protest-pasty-tax.html?nav=5006 

or
http://preview.tinyurl.com/86sjs2v

The story reads in part. . .

CALUMET - As they did in the 18th century, Americans are rising up to 
protest what they view as oppressive and unfair British taxation.

The difference is, now it's in solidarity with the British.

The Keweenaw Kernewek, a local group for people of Cornish descent, 
is gathering signatures in opposition to a recently enacted 20 
percent tax on takeout snacks. That includes the pasty, the meat pie 
brought over to the Upper Peninsula by Cornish miners and since 
designated as Michigan's state food.


Read the story to learn what happens next.


Tim Collins
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12702006@N07/sets/ 


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