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Indiana Should Thank Illinois

seasoned_geek by seasoned_geek

Yes, they really should. We have genetic misfits being quoted in the paper about how much the new $1/pack increase on tobacco products is going to raise for the state. I’m not a bible thumper, but both the bible and scientists have said that repeated generations of brother and sister mating would eventually lead to non-viable offspring and Springfield now appears to be living proof of that.

Illinois shares a long and winding border with Indiana. Tobacco tax in Indiana is 99.5 cents last time I looked on-line. With a tax that is nearly $1 per pack less than Illinois, residents on the east side of Illinois are going to pile into a 40MPG car and drive less than 20 miles to Indiana once per month.

If you really want to raise taxes in Illinois, put a $10 per session tax on religious worship in religious places and a $1 tax on every bible, Quran, and Tora distributed in the state even if it isn’t sold. You’ll be flush with funds in no time.

Roland Hughes started his IT career in the early 1980s. He quickly became a consultant and president of Logikal Solutions, a software consulting firm specializing in OpenVMS application and C++/Qt touchscreen/embedded Linux development. Early in his career he became involved in what is now called cross platform development. Given the dearth of useful books on the subject he ventured into the world of professional author in 1995 writing the first of the "Zinc It!" book series for John Gordon Burke Publisher, Inc.

A decade later he released a massive (nearly 800 pages) tome "The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer" which tried to encapsulate the essential skills gained over what was nearly a 20 year career at that point. From there "The Minimum You Need to Know" book series was born.

Three years later he wrote his first novel "Infinite Exposure" which got much notice from people involved in the banking and financial security worlds. Some of the attacks predicted in that book have since come to pass. While it was not originally intended to be a trilogy, it became the first book of "The Earth That Was" trilogy:
Infinite Exposure
Lesedi - The Greatest Lie Ever Told
John Smith - Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars

When he is not consulting Roland Hughes posts about technology and sometimes politics on his blog. He also has regularly scheduled Sunday posts appearing on the Interesting Authors blog.