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April 22, 2007
Sunday
 
 
Carla's music video
Dale Amon (Belfast, Northern Ireland/Laramie, Wy)  Arts & Entertainment

I am sure many of you have heard Carla Howell's song "How Could I Live Without Filing Taxes". Well, now she has a music video!

Comments

I do like the first comment on that video,

at least the mafia doesn't make you fill out paper work.

Posted by Julian Taylor at April 22, 2007 01:24 AM

The sentiment is laudable
But the delivery is lamentably cliched.
Are you going out with this young woman Dale!?


Posted by RAB at April 22, 2007 01:39 AM

Hardly. Carla is married and one of the top LIbertarian Party activists in the US. She has managed some really good vote totals and came within perhaps a percent of getting a massive tax decrease ballot iniitiative through in that state.

She is not a budding rock star, she is an activist who uses some tools previously little used except by 'the other side'.


Posted by Dale Amon at April 22, 2007 01:58 AM

Talking of the other side
Have you any idea how much Joan Baez
set back the peace movement in the sixties! :-)


Posted by RAB at April 22, 2007 02:08 AM

I live in MA, where she almost got that passed. She got the question on the ballot to totally elimnate the state income tax. It got over 45% of the vote. That would have been pretty interesting times if it had passed. The state government must have been !@#$ing it's pants.


Posted by Duncan at April 23, 2007 04:21 PM

Maybe just ONE person who's not white might have made the video?

No, I'm NOT a PC idiot, but I know that when one is trying to persuade, it's good for the target to feel included.


Posted by staghounds at April 23, 2007 04:52 PM

What "target"?

The target was people generally - but like most ads the people shown were the people we would like to be, not the people we actually are.

I might as well complain "where are the short, bald, middle aged men".

I guess some young attractive nonwhite people could have been shown as well. In real life black and white people do not play together much (which is sad - it would be better if people did associate more), but ads are not real life so, yes, it would have been a good idea.


Posted by Paul Marks at April 24, 2007 02:02 PM
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