Melissa Etheridge Might Have The Right Idea
Since Prop 8 passed in California, Melissa Etheridge's marriage to Tammy Lynn Michaels isn't really a marriage anymore in the legal sense. I guess? Right? Well, Melissa will protest the ban on gay marriage by not paying state taxes! Melissa wrote on The Daily Beast about her plan:
Okay. So Prop 8 passed. Alright, I get it. 51% of you think that I am a second class citizen. Alright then. So my wife, uh I mean, roommate? Girlfriend? Special lady friend? You are gonna have to help me here because I am not sure what to call her now. Anyways, she and I are not allowed the same right under the state constitution as any other citizen. Okay, so I am taking that to mean I do not have to pay my state taxes because I am not a full citizen. I mean that would just be wrong, to make someone pay taxes and not give them the same rights, sounds sort of like that taxation without representation thing from the history books.Okay, cool I don't mean to get too personal here but there is a lot I can do with the extra half a million dollars that I will be keeping instead of handing it over to the state of California. Oh, and I am sure Ellen will be a little excited to keep her bazillion bucks that she pays in taxes too. Wow, come to think of it, there are quite a few of us fortunate gay folks that will be having some extra cash this year. What recession? We're gay! I am sure there will be a little box on the tax forms now single, married, divorced, gay, check here if you are gay, yeah, that's not so bad. Of course all of the waiters and hairdressers and UPS worker
Hmmm....no state taxes in California? CA already has In-N-Out and now the gays don't have to pay taxes! Woo hoo! Grab my dildo collection, pa, I'm going out west!
Think of all the things I can buy with my extra dough from not paying state taxes. I can buy more discontinued Mother's Animal Cookies, I can eat In-N-Out all day, I can even go to Disneyland like once (that shit ain't cheap)! Fuck. All of us can go to T.G.I. Friday's and the Mudslides will be on me! It'll be a 24-hour party!
That's until the IRS comes to kill my fun and take me away in handcuffs. When I start screaming, "Melissa Etheridge told me I didn't have to pay taxes," they'll just nod their heads and shuttle me off to prison. Oh well. At least you can bring me warm Hot Pockets during visiting days. You'll owe me for all those cocktails I bought you! And I'm sure I can be someone's wife in the clink!
Click here to read Melissa's entire entry.
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Amen, sister. If a citizen pays their taxes and stuff, they should be granted the same rights as everyone else. If she is going to be denied those rights, then why should she bother. Good for her. They're a lovely couple btw, and I still consider them to be wife and wife, even if the state of California does not.
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"I want a butt ugly slut with a bad drankin' problem and jealous old man in jail "- Roger Alan Wade
BTW: I will defend anyone accused of tax evasion ... for a reasonable fee.
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GOOD LUCK, I LIVE IN CALI AND THAT SHIT DON'T FLY, ONLY THE ILLEGAL ALIENS GET AWAY WITH PAYING NO TAXES HERE!!
Are you kidding me? GET OVER IT !
Just as the Republicans need to move on, the gays need to also.
Well, she does have the right idea, but Prop 8 isn't retroactive... she and her wife are still legally married, as are Ellen and Portia, Sulu and his boytoy, etc.
That said, no gays in California should pay taxes until this shit is straightened out! No pun intended.
She's got a damn good point.
Hell to the yeah, If they don't consider gays to be full citizens they shouldn't have to pay full taxes,
I'm becoming a lesbian and Moving To CA
Melissa better call Joan Baez and get the number to Joan's lawyer. Joan tried to not pay a portion of her taxes as war protest. Uncle Sam gave her the choice of paying up or going to the federal pen. Notice that Joan has never been imprisoned for tax evasion.
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She's right.
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