Moving Towards Tobacco Prohibition

Texas Straight Talk ^ | 06/15/2009 | Ron Paul

[americanophile]

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” - C.S. Lewis

[SpaceBar]

Excellent article linked below.

The Phony Tobacco War by Thomas Clough

[bestintxas]

Won’t happen.

Like other sin taxes like the lottery, too much tax money is being brought in.

I call it one of the few voluntary taxes, and I am more than happy not to have to pay that one.

[HiramQuick]

You have called that one 100% right.

Legalize Marijuana ... tax it and the 60 billion dollar war on drugs would be over ....oops ... wait a minute.

That is exactly why marijuana will NEVER be made legal. to many bureaucrats have built empires on the war on drugs. Make them (drugs) legal and all that govt funding and govt jobs would go away.

follow the money

[HiramQuick]

You have called that one 100% right.

Legalize Marijuana ... tax it and the 60 billion dollar war on drugs would be over ....oops ... wait a minute.

That is exactly why marijuana will NEVER be made legal. to many bureaucrats have built empires on the war on drugs. Make them (drugs) legal and all that govt funding and govt jobs would go away.

follow the money

[skr]

I sense a smoky black market in the future.

[Oldpuppymax]

The point of this new “law” is the creation of new taxes, pure and simple.

[ridesthemiles]

Congress passed SCHIP last year— health programs ‘for the childrec’ which is totally funded by tobacco taxes, as I understand.

Now they want to ban tobacco, and there is no sunset clause in the original legislation.
What will fund SCHIP in the future???

[djsherin]

Ping

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I wish all smokers would quit at once, and leave this government and its bureaucrats twisting in the wind.

[djsherin]

The government would probably tell the tobacco companies to keep producing, and then it would just buy the cigarettes and dump them in the ocean. That way we wouldn’t have to suffer unemployment from the loss of an industry.

And although this is intended to be sarcasm, I can see the government acting in this way...

[elkfersupper]

Won’t happen.

Don't count on it.

I live in a state that is roughly 400 miles on a side, with only 1.6 million in population and I can't legally smoke anywhere but my own house and my own automobile (with the windows closed).

[murphE]

Sad, but true. However, the government would allow tobacco companies to keep selling their product to other countries - the same countries we give aid to for health care.

[GoldStandard]

I wish the tobacco companies would say “no, you shut up” and pull their companies and products out of America. Most of their money comes from exports anyways, and it’d be fun to see the government bullies at the state and federal level twist and turn as they watch their billions of dollars in taxes leave.

[RandallFlagg]

E-Cigarette Review (Vanity)

Send all smokers you know to e-cigarette-forum.com so they can stick a middle finger into Obama's face.

[wolfcreek]

700,000 jobs and $10 billion in taxes fron the tobacco industry.

http://www.tobacco.org/resources/history/strategieslb.html

[Wolfie]

Sooner or later the tax revenues will drop below what can be gained in expanded power and funding for the government if tobacco is made illegal. So it goes.

[SIDENET]

My next career will be tobacco smuggling.

[bamahead]

Hemp and tobacco were staple crops for our founding fathers when our country was new. It is baffling to see how far removed from real freedom this country has become since then.



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