{"id":10633,"date":"2011-12-31T16:37:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T20:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=10633"},"modified":"2011-12-31T16:37:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T20:37:42","slug":"your-tax-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=10633","title":{"rendered":"YOUR TAX $ AT WORK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one has to be among the dumbest laws in the country.  Via <a href=\"http:\/\/thedisbrimstonedailypitchfork.wordpress.com\/\">Hell&#8217;s leading daily<\/a> we learn that starting tomorrow in Illinois you will have to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsiltv.com\/news\/local\/Caustic-Poison-Law-136400558.html\">show a gov&#8217;t issued ID<\/a> in order to buy Drano.  And a couple thousand other regular household items.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new Illinois law may require you to spend more time in the checkout line and provide personal information. Starting January 1, residents must provide a photo ID and other information when purchasing products that contain caustic materials. That means everything from drain openers, to pool chemicals, to toilet bowl cleaners will become harder to buy.<\/p>\n<p>[snip]<\/p>\n<p>After the New Year, not only is it a Class 4 felony to carry around caustic chemicals like drain opener or toilet cleaner, but businesses who sell it must be shown a government issued ID and fill out a form with a host of information about the customer. Batteries are exempt from the registration log requirement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d say it&#8217;d probably take a minute and a half approximately,&#8221; McInturff says about taking down the information.<\/p>\n<p>The law originated after two women reported sulfuric acid being thrown in their face. One attack was deemed a hoax after the women admitted doing it to herself.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I swear that sounds like it should come from The Onion.  How the hell did this make it through the legislature?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one has to be among the dumbest laws in the country. Via Hell&#8217;s leading daily we learn that starting tomorrow in Illinois you will have to show a gov&#8217;t issued ID in order to buy Drano. And a couple thousand other regular household items. A new Illinois law may require you to spend more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10634,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10633\/revisions\/10634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}