New Hampshire State Rep. Catherine Mulholland doesn’t want you to eat Snickers bars anymore.
A few weeks ago, Mulholland, D-Grafton, sponsored a new bill to establish a tax on candy that was, fortunately for us, stalled in the New Hampshire state legislature. As I continue to buy tax-free M&Ms from the vending machine, I can’t help but wonder whether the Mulholland is trying to legislate her idea of a healthy lifestyle rather than trying to efficiently generate state funds. In the words of a March 13 editorial in the Manchester Union Leader, the bill is “one of those bills the sheer needless complexity of which baffles the imagination.” There are easier ways to raise money.
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It’s not that I haven’t liked my Undergraduate Advisors during my sophomore and junior years. Without a doubt, I enjoy the sugary surprises my UGA randomly leaves at the foot of my door. And I appreciate the hallway bulletin board that conveniently posts “emergency” phone numbers to local pizza joints, Safety and Security and Dick’s House (in that order).
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I read Chris Chan ‘07’s op-ed (“Lady Liberty’s Lottery,” April 24) and was generally sympathetic until one paragraph: “The United States may be protecting its workers from international competition but it is also crippling its own economy by keeping intelligent, capable workers out… and placing a cap on the value that its firms can produce.” This implies that there aren’t enough native-born Americans to fill these “intelligent” positions; are there not “intelligent, capable” workers born in the States? Clearly, there are.
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