Italians Muzzle Pet Tax
May 20, 2012 by Michael Mountain
An Italian canine da pastore Bergamasco It was all bark, no bite when a parliamentary commission in Italy proposed to help cut the massive debt by taxing people’s pets. When the idea for a tax on “animals of affection” was announced, the Italian news media went into red alert, with one news agency running 40 [...]
Top Ten Tax-Funded Bizarre Experiments
April 17, 2012 by Michael Mountain
We’ve heard plenty of stories in the last few days of tax dollars funding lavish Las Vegas vacations for government agencies and prostitution scandals in the Secret Service. But these are all peanuts compared to the amount of your money being dished out for weird vivisection experiments.