Pebrero 17, 2014

"In my honest opinion we looked like nuts in those years. Nobody can have been as badly dressed on stage as we were."

Writes Björn Ulvaeus of Abba, explaining that a motivation for the costumery was that they wanted the cost of the clothes to be tax deductible and that meant that they'd need the Swedish government to accept that their assertion that these things were not also usable as street clothes.

And this was in the 1970s, the decade when people wore the strangest clothes.
Ipinaskil ni Ann Althouse sa 11:13 AM
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madAsHell ayon kay ...

So, how do we explain Kiss?

2/17/14, 11:18 AM
Levi Starks ayon kay ...

That's ridiculous,
People in all those scandinavian countries love paying high taxes......

2/17/14, 11:19 AM
Bob R ayon kay ...

An explanation, not an excuse.

2/17/14, 11:25 AM
DKWalser ayon kay ...

(Mostly liberal) People say that taxes don't affect behavior. That belief doesn't comport with my experience. Thanks for another example.

2/17/14, 1:44 PM
Sam L. ayon kay ...

Well, I liked the vimmen in tight bright pants and short shorts.

2/17/14, 2:02 PM
zefal ayon kay ...

DKWalser said...(Mostly liberal) People say that taxes don't affect behavior. That belief doesn't comport with my experience. Thanks for another example.

I'd like to see warren buffett's tax returns before the 1986 tax overhaul. I'll guarantee you he jumped through more loopholes than Siegfried & Roy's lions & tigers jumped through hula-hoops during that time.

2/17/14, 2:43 PM

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