What do you boycott?

I added a new one to my list last night, and it's a doozy! The entire city of Chesterfield, Mo. in suburban STL. Basically, I will no longer shop within city limits because my sales tax dollars will no longer go to support that sh!thole community.

To make a long story short, I received a traffic ticket for an illegal U-turn last night in what was, in my opinion, a form of entrapment and complete BS. In my opinion, if that's how Chesterfield wants to treat people who visit their town to shop, I'll take my tax dollars elsewhere. And that includes returning the $1,300+ in suits and dress shirts I bought from a shop there last weekend. The $90 in tax the city had collected from that sale can instead pay my $87 ticket, and will be the last $87 that town ever gets from me.

 

I expect all the tax-and-spend libs on the board will stop using Google immediately:

Does this take Eric Schmidt out of the running for Treasury Secretary?

 

You were trapped into making a U turn?

 

Now, there's one instance where I think a boycott can have tangible effect. You spelled it out ... if, indeed, you made sure the correct people in Chesterfield knew what you were doing and why you were doing it. If you didn't do that, then the gesture was hollow.

Somebody saying, "I'm not going to eat Oscar Mayer products anymore" ... well, that's spitting into the wind. The company isn't going to know you're doing it, so there will be no incentive for them to change what they're doing.

 

I suppose, Ragu, I liked Rusty's reasoning there. The tax on those clothes IS money that the city would have received. They won't receive it now that they're collecting $87 from him for that ticket. They lost on the deal.

 

That'll teach that store to never give you a traffic ticket again!

 

Re Google, I've been using Bing lately anyway.

 

that is disappointing. if true, i guess i'm going to have to find something else, too.

 

Too late!

 

Great fucking pull. Thank you for that.