Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Shopping Mall Trivia

ABC News: Mellody Hobson: Become a Savvy Mall Shopper (link)

The Program Theme:
Good Morning America (ABC) had a blurb on shopping malls this morning. Most of the stuff on the program I taught in my college entrepreneurship classes.
Read about it, for your business ideas, or for shopping tips.

The Trivia:
There are more shopping malls in the U.S. than high schools.
Over $2 Trillion dollars are spent at shopping malls each year.
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An Idea:
The second leads me to think the federal budget deficit. A special Shopping Mall Tax, similar to the sin tax on booze and smokes could balance the federal books rather quickly.
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This new tax money could even be used to reimburse Social Security of the massive amounts the government has "borrowed" from these funds.

Comments:
shopping mall tax?

I have a little better idea. I think taxes should hit the richer people in society. Taxes that might target them might be taxes on:

1)country club dues and golf carts
2)vehicles above number of licensed drivers in house
3)hours spent in bridge, 42, garden club, antique car and mason meetings
4)etc

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Hi Mitch
Other people besides rich people have those items too.
Maybe we could exempt senior citizens on fixed incomes from your tax and/or the mall tax.
Especially since the Texas Legislature just did away with most of our (seniors') school tax break.
If Kinky will campaign to restore the reduction for seniors I sure will vote for him.
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Let's see....Shopping malls....cattle....robots.
Is this stimulation overkill, or what?

I vote: tax the malls. They're luxuries when you can shop Wal-mart, thrift stores, and garage sales.
 
Mall taxing? Okay. I seldom ever shop the mall!
 

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