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WP Reports: 2012 Zany VA Bills Introduced
Posted by:
curious
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Date: January 01, 2012 08:05PM
Any thoughts?
BrianSchonenman- what was the zanyest (is this how its spelled?) bill you were asked to introduce?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/pickle-sellers-crank-calls-could-get-a-hearing-in-va-assembly/2011/12/16/gIQAZCe0SP_print.html
Perhaps the most unusual bill of the bunch is Kilgore’s space-burial measure. That came about at the request of a constituent who serves on the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority, which operates the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore.
The bill would give a tax break [ed. $8,000] to anyone contracting to have his remains shot into space from Virginia. So far, only one company provides such a service, Celestis of Houston, which has launched about 600 deceased space travelers out of Florida, California, New Mexico and overseas. Space burials start at $995 for a 15-minute suborbital jaunt and top out at $12,500 for an unending deep-space voyage.
BrianSchonenman- what was the zanyest (is this how its spelled?) bill you were asked to introduce?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/pickle-sellers-crank-calls-could-get-a-hearing-in-va-assembly/2011/12/16/gIQAZCe0SP_print.html
Perhaps the most unusual bill of the bunch is Kilgore’s space-burial measure. That came about at the request of a constituent who serves on the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority, which operates the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore.
The bill would give a tax break [ed. $8,000] to anyone contracting to have his remains shot into space from Virginia. So far, only one company provides such a service, Celestis of Houston, which has launched about 600 deceased space travelers out of Florida, California, New Mexico and overseas. Space burials start at $995 for a 15-minute suborbital jaunt and top out at $12,500 for an unending deep-space voyage.
Re: WP Reports: 2012 Zany VA Bills Introduced
Posted by:
Gravedigger
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Date: January 02, 2012 11:02AM
There goes Kilgore destroying more jobs again by shipping them out to other states, all the while us decent gravediggers go without work. Can we correct the laws on the books which date back to the 19th century before creating crazy ones for the year 2320?