Sunday
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!

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










