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Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson thinks there’s a good case for banning cigarettes
POLITICO ^
| September 15, 2016
| Ben Birnbaum
Posted on 09/17/2016 10:30:15 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020
WOW...even I don’t think we should ban them. Tax ‘em sure, tax the snot out of them.
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posted on
09/17/2016 11:24:09 AM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: dowcaet
Does Gary Johnson and Bill Weld intend to name their new party the RINOtarians?LINOtarians.
This isn't GOP-lite, this is political correctness. The most important issues to the SJWs who've been pouring into the Libertarian movement since Ron Paul retired are feminism, homosexual rights and open borders. So basically the entire anti-freedom social agenda of the radical left.
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posted on
09/17/2016 11:28:25 AM PDT
by
MaxFlint
To: Pearls Before Swine
Here we have a man who is clearly not a libertarian using the Libertarian Party as his vehicle.
It's a two-way street, though.
His supporters see Johnson/Weld as a way to "grow the party."
They're only too happy to be used by Gary and Bill because they're also using them.
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posted on
09/17/2016 11:29:55 AM PDT
by
x
Nutball Gary Johnson aside, I'm all for banning cigarettes. I've felt that way ever since the government shake-down known as the "tobacco settlement."
I sent a letter to Philip Morris telling them at the beginning of the shake-down, that they should have responded with, "You know, you're right, we've been bad. So we'll stop selling cigarettes in the USA. And we'll stop buying tobacco in the USA. And we'll stop manufacturing cigarettes in the USA."
That would have put an end to the shake-down so fast, it would have made leftists' collective little heads spin!
Mark
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posted on
09/17/2016 11:31:53 AM PDT
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: Trump20162020
Uh, banning things is not libertarian. Gary Johnson is a LINO.
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posted on
09/17/2016 11:32:13 AM PDT
by
dinodino
To: Trump20162020
Sure, let's go ahead and create a black market that would make those caused by Prohibition and the "War on Drugs" look like a flea market stall. Brilliant.
Politics has become a hall of mirrors where the so called Democratic Party is run as an oligarchy of rich Socialists (a contradiction within a contradiction), and the so called Libertarians nominate a Fascist. What next, a Muslim Pope?
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posted on
09/17/2016 11:41:48 AM PDT
by
katana
To: x
It's a two-way street, though. Yeah, users and usees in both directions. You aren't saying that the party members are more principled? They're just climbing the jungle gym too.
To: Trump20162020
One of Lenin’s first acts of governance was outlawing smoking on the train carrying him and his staff into Russia in 1917.
Lenin was a Libertarian.
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posted on
09/17/2016 11:46:25 AM PDT
by
samtheman
(Vote Trump)
To: Trump20162020
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posted on
09/17/2016 11:48:29 AM PDT
by
x
To: stocksthatgoup
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posted on
09/17/2016 12:03:39 PM PDT
by
arthurus
(Hillary's campaign is getting shaky)
To: Trump20162020
I didn’t mind Johnson as my Gov, but now, every time he opens his mouth I find more and more reason to dislike him.
To: Fiji Hill
Gary Johnson also wants a carbon tax... He did some decent things as Governor of New Mexico but he's gone right off the rails with this malarkey. The good news is he's going to draw off a bunch of younger voters who might otherwise vote for hILLary.
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posted on
09/17/2016 12:13:53 PM PDT
by
Timocrat
(Ingnorantia non excusat)
To: Trump20162020
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posted on
09/17/2016 12:19:16 PM PDT
by
onyx
(YOU'RE POSTING HERE, SO DONATE MONTHLY! NOT NICE TO FREEPLOAD!)
To: Trump20162020
The “libertarians” at #NeverReason will still support him.
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posted on
09/17/2016 12:23:37 PM PDT
by
oblomov
(We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
To: Trump20162020
I don’t smoke cigarettes, but a case can be made to ban Gary Johnson.
5.56mm
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posted on
09/17/2016 12:26:24 PM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: Trump20162020
Well good for him. What an idiot.
To: Trump20162020
I thought there was a good libertarian case for banning ... These are words that a real libertarian would never say. All you need to know about Johnson.
To: Trump20162020
This guy makes the late Rodney King (IQ 78) look like a genius.
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posted on
09/17/2016 1:41:16 PM PDT
by
CdMGuy
To: Pearls Before Swine
Here we have a man who is clearly not a libertarian using the Libertarian Party as his vehicle. Channeling Bob Barr.
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posted on
09/17/2016 1:52:26 PM PDT
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! - vote Trump 2016)
To: Terry L Smith
Mexican is the N-word...another fine bit of logic, and Trumps views on immigration are RACIST. This gy is a buffoon.
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posted on
09/17/2016 2:25:51 PM PDT
by
Glad2bnuts
(If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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