Posted
12/17/2006 05:03:00 PM
by Douglas
Dave Barry weighs in, in 1994, on the Strategic Helium Reserve for
Reason.Well, that helium thing does. That's real money. All the tax money that I've ever, ever paid--and I've paid a lot of taxes--will not even begin to pay for one year of the strategic helium reserve. So when I sit and write a check out to the government, I can take it quite personally.
Sleep tight, America. The SHR was phased out in
1999.