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Trouble in River City!
November 16, 2009
Trouble is brewing in Mason City, the model for "River City" in "The Music Man." It's scary enough that the Iowa State University Center for Agricultural Law and Tax School here today -- with me, the IRS, Roger McEowen and 160 hard-partying accountants ready to wreak their customary mayhem in the town's tattoo parlors and karaoke bars. But now, says the Chicago Tribune, Mason City has a billboard controversy:
MASON CITY, Iowa - A billboard in Mason City that feature a definition of socialism accompanied by the phrase "Obama-nation" is drawing complaints.Mark Tlusty of Rockford spent about $400 to display the sign for a month. He represents a group called Concerned Citizens and helped organize an April anti-tax protest in Mason City.
The offending billboard, in an exclusive Tax Update photo:
It hasn't gone unnoticed:
Kathleen Wild of Mason City complained that the sign gives the appearance that residents are intolerant.
Intolerent? Incoherent, maybe. But are you supposed to be "tolerant" of socialism?
Whatever you think of the billboard, you can still sign up for the remaining tax schools in Muscatine, Denison and Ames!
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I think he left off the rest of the definition of socialism. Maybe if he got rid of the hammer and sickle he could complete the sentence. Who or what owns and controls the industry, capital, land, etc. His definition of socialism sounds pretty good. I want to own and control industry, capital and land .
Posted by: dale | November 16, 2009 10:09 AM