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14 THE RURAL VOICE
The World from Mabel's Grill
"I may have to rob a bank, get
caught and go to jail so I can smoke
when I want to," grumbled Dave
Winston as he stomped into Mabel's
the other morning. He'd been stand-
ing outside to finish his cigarette
before he
came in for
breakfast. The
Board of
Health
recently told
Mabel her
place was too
small to have
a smoking and
non-smoking
section.
"Did you
sec where
some guy in
jail in Guelph
is fighting a
The world's
problems are
solved daily
'round the table
at Mabel's
no -smoking
rule in jail? His awyer claims it's
cruel and unusual punishment and
besides, he's addicted to tobacco so
their keeping him from smoking
violates his rights under the Charter.
If he wins, he'll have more damn
rights in jail than the rest of us."
"Ych, and then the jail guards will
sue the government saying their
rights are being violated because they
have to breath in polluted air all
day," said Cliff Murray, "and we
taxpayers will end up paying both
sides."
"Whatya mean you'll pay!" Dave
snapped. "We smokers pay more
taxes than you guys. You should be
treating us royally for all we do to
support the government. They're
doing lots to keep the millionaires
happy by cutting their income taxes
but instead they're increasing the
taxes for us smokers."
`'Yes, it's enough to drive me to
drink," joked Wayne Bruce, "except
that then 1'd be helping you smokers
pay the tax burden."
"You know," said Molly
Whiteside as she delivered Dave's
ham and eggs, "the government
maybe should be moving to close
down the churches. After all, they
don't pay any taxes and if the
ministers ever succeeded in getting
people to give up their sins, the
government would go broke."
"Yeh, they've got smoking
covered and drinking and these days
they make a pile off gambling.
They've taxed just about every vice
but sex," said Cliff.
"Be a lot cheaper if they just taxed
my sex and left my cigarettes alone,"
grumbled Dave.
"Want to bet they don't find a way
to tax sex once the gambling boom
levels out?" George McKenzie asked.
"Of course when you get to be my
age it's one tax you can avoid
without much effort."
"It's going to be awfully hard to
be able to know when to collect,"
said Wayne. "Think of all the tax
collectors they'd have to hire."
"Yeh and they'd want time and a
half for night work," said George.
"Maybe they'd have to do it like
they do for food," put in Mabel.
"There's no tax on food if you do
your cooking at home but they tax
hell out of you if you dine out."
"You can bet they won't pass any
tax on sex in Washington, at least
until Clinton's gone," joked Wayne.
"Seems like he never eats at home."
"Yup," said George, "that's the
next government moneymaking
scheme for sure: government
sponsored brothels with a good
whack of provincial sales tax and
goods and services tax on every
transaction."
"Well it would be a service tax
whether it was any good or not,"
joked Wayne.
"They could put the government
brothels right beside the government
casinos and the booze stores and let
you do all your sinning and
taxpaying under one roof," Molly
suggested.
"Hopefully they'd at least let you
have sex indoors, not out on the
sidewalk like us smokers," Dave
grumbled.
"Maybe they can have those little
glassed -in areas like a Tim
Horton's", Molly suggested.
"Not a pretty thought," said Cliff.
"It's a wonder some jail bird
hasn't sued by now claiming
depriving him of sex is cruel and
unusual punishment," George said.
"You mean we could sue the
government for that?," Wayne asked.
"Don't, please," pleaded Dave.
"They'll raise the cigarette tax to pay
the settlements."0