Better yet, buy a keg, build a bonfire in the backyard, pitch my stinking old carcass in, and PARTY DOWN! Please HAVE a FEW LAUGHS at MY EXPENSE(?)! I'd rather you do that.
You can fly my ashes over the Middle East and Central Asia and dump them anywhere in Pashtunistan, Iraq, and Palestine, thank you. Unbelievable.
"Mass. high court upholds local fee for burial permits; Fall River family called it a tax" by John R. Ellement, Globe Staff | June 27, 2009
A quest by members of a Fall River clan to end what they considered an illegal tax on grieving families ended yesterday when the state’s high court said burial permit fees are legal.
Already crying and the state slips a shot in the stomach, oooof!
Martin Silva, who has a law degree but whose job is with his family-owned funeral home business, said he was disappointed by the Supreme Judicial Court ruling.
“It’s a shame they didn’t decide to throw a bone to the little guy,’’ Silva said in a telephone interview. Grieving families “paid the funeral home to do something. They paid the cemeteries. This is just the government getting more money.’’
In a unanimous ruling, the SJC said the fees levied by some communities are a routine part of municipal government in the state, are aimed at protecting public health, and cannot be legally viewed as a tax.
And so sayeth the gods of state tyranny. Then they will go make exceptions for the most bizarre rituals under "religious freedom" -- but that's a whole other issue. This is about when I'm gone.
And since when has the state cared about our health?
I mean, if they REALLY CARED....
“The burial permit charges are regulatory fees, not proprietary fees,’’ Justice Judith Cowin wrote for the court. “These charges are founded upon the State’s police power to regulate the disposal of dead bodies in a manner that preserves the public health, safety and welfare.’’
I guess when that man-made swine flu starts roaring through here next fall that will be an important phrase.
Related: Swine Flu Brings Martial Law to Massachusetts
Gee, somehow my Globe missed that!
AND this: Journalist Files Charges against WHO and UN for Bioterrorism and Intent to Commit Mass Murder
That's why I'm like O'Leary's COW yelling FIRE!, FIRE!, FIRE!
And WE AIN'T FOOLED!
Related: Armageddon Is Now
Cowin also noted “although a municipality has no independent power of taxation, it may assess, levy, and collect fees when the Legislature has authorized it to do so, provided that those fees are reasonable and proportional.’’
Now, BEND OVER!
Oh, you can't, your are a CORPSE!
State necrophilia then?
Can you seem my ghost give you one of these?
