Tall People Should Pay Higher Taxes

Well, according to Harvard economics professor N. Gregory Mankiw and his student Matthew Weinzierl in their paper The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution.

[snicker] In their plan, those of us who are severely altitudinally-deficient would get extra bennies. I mean, geesh, society OWES it to us because we spend all our extra time hemming our pants, climbing stepladders and damaging our feet with platform shoes in order to be noticed.