You go. Singer/songwriter Melissa Etheridge has published a blog entry on Tina Brown’s upstart web site “The Daily Beast” in which she responds to the recent passage of California’s Proposition 8 by promising she won’t pay state taxes any more:
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.
Hey, can we do that? Well, as much as I’m all about a creative class tax cut, my meager, scattershot, and often-cash income, plus the ability to write off just about everything I do (please don’t audit me!) means the whole “not paying taxes” thing wouldn’t be much of a protest in my house. Here’s my suggestion: let’s make Mormons’ fears real, and try and destroy as many happy heterosexual marriages as we can. I’ll meet you at the Pitt-Jolie mansion, Melissa. Wear something sexy, we’ve got work to do.
