A restaurant owner near Baltimore staged the protest you see in the photo above when an $800/year tax was levied by the city on the restaurant's display of a large pink flamingo statue. Following the protest, the city halved the tax "using different geometry" to measure the bird. Three things:
1. What the heck is "different geometry," and why wasn't it used in the first place?
2. Why is the restaurant owner satisfied with this? He is still paying $400 a year to have a bird statue on his own property.
3. If there's "different geometry" available, can they different-geomotry that tax all the way down to zero?
Hat tip to LewRockwell.com.
However, that picture is awesome, and a major factor in my making this post.
What new "geometry" did they use? Maybe they used "Riemannian" instead of "Euclidean"...or maybe they created there own, considered government bureaucrats think the state is omnipotent...
It is sad when the government represents itself more like a mafia than a government.
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