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*obesity and ebt cards should be in the crosshairs...*
Program them to only accept rice and beans, a complete protein.

*Smokers are usually pretty good about dying without running up costs.*
They pay their own way. I can see you ‘get it’.

*I see that if you don’t like something that has nothing to do with you or that you are totally fine with empowering government to force behavior on other people. You are a buffet totalitarian that is fine with stomping on people you don’t agree with or dislike. The second that you stomped on I will bet that you squeal like a pig.*
Come on! The point is to get from point A to point B. Cigars should be on the back burner along with the minimum wage-it’s a no win idea to start with-think ‘26.

*Who can afford cigarettes in this economy? Mainly poor folks, from what I’ve seen.*
VERY GOOD! There’s only one problem. Who sticks up for the po’ folk? They can’t afford expensive vacations and smoking is their pleasure. In an ideal world we eliminate all taxes on the stuff and make sure the asian countries eliminate tariffs on what they call our poison exports. They do it for their own tobacco farmers. We eliminate all taxes, lower the price, the po’ folk smoke more and die younger. Who wins that argument? Gotta admit we’re right but does it matter? There are no Milton Friedman out there to run interference for us.

You disappoint me.