The natural response to a 50% tax on anything is "are you stupid?", but I suppose an equal question would be "are you a politician?"

Star Locke, who, despite his name, is not an intergalatic thief and smuggler wanted on five star systems, but in fact is a candidate for governor of Texas, wants to place a gigantic tax, presumably with steer horns on the front, on anything a committee deems objectionable.

Locke, according to The Amarillo Globe News, wants "to do away with property taxes statewide" while taxing "violent games" and a myriad of other things (i.e. abortions and soft drinks) a whopping 50%. He sees these taxes as "the power to destroy. So our concept is that we need to tax things we don't want and you want to not tax things you want to encourage."

One thing you have to say for him, at least he's honest. He makes no bones about the fact that he wants to crush, via governmental control, anything he doesn't like. At any rate, I don't know the current political climate over in Texas, but I can't imagine this guy has a serious shot at the office. Generally politicians who aren't crackpots don't put pictures of bloody aborted fetuses on their websites.

Source: 1up