"We pay, you go away"

On your tax form, you can choose to donate money to a campaign finance fund.

How about a modified form of that program that might have an even greater impact on society. A general fund that would pay annoying well-known celebrities and politicians to retire, go away, get lost.

For instance, you could decide to give $.20 to pay Gray Davis to retire, $.17 to Alec Baldwin, and $.16 to David E. Kelley.

Small change, you say? Well, try multiplying that by 280 million contributors. Gray would get a whopping $56 million dollars, and all he'd have to do is make himself scarce.

This whole thing could be done electronically. Finally put the Internet to a good use. This could even be a reverse auction of some kind. If Rosie won't retire for $80 million, well then, people will just have to increase their bid.

WackyHumor · Sun, 10/13/2002 - 10:38 · · Importance: 1