[Dick Bachert]

BIG BROTHER KNOWS BEST!!!

[Kimberly GG]

Glenn Beck showed a clip where Obama, in one breath, talked about the stimulus bill having X amount of dollars for Smoking Cessation Programs, and then in the next breath, talked about how funding for the SCHIP would be on the backs of smokers. What an idiot. Beck said it would take millions and millions of NEW smokers just to fund the program!!

Frankly, Obama’s stupidity aside, I’m sick to death of EVERYTHING being funded on the backs of smokers. It’s about time we taxed ALCOHOL...heavily. What doesn’t get paid for by drinkers could be paid by taxes collected on toilet paper or sugar products....something EVERY ONE uses.

[cmonkey]

Just like animal farm, non-smokers are “more equal” then smokers or any other group that is dis-approved of by the state.

[EGPWS]

How many days till President Obama breaks another campaign promise?

It may take the accuracy of an atomic clock to time the breaks and track them by the nanosecond.

[ClearCase_guy]

From a liberal point of view, I’m pretty sure this tax isn’t a tax. So this sort of tax can be hiked up on the poor, without ever increasing the taxes that the poor have to pay. Yeah, it makes no sense. But this is how Liberals sleep at night.

[Force of Truth]

And a side note: When you tax the rich, you are also taxing the poor.

[NonValueAdded]

If he cared about the health of these children, the purpose of the cigarette tax would be to deter smoking because many children from homes of smokers require expensive medical care for respiratory symptoms.

Ah, don't you know how to spin? The tax hike is just the stimulus necessary to get poor smokers to quit thereby improving the health of their children. That SCHITP will require an additional 22 million smokers to break even is irreverent. :P

[bluecollarman]

Yeah? Well a whole lot of Freeper’s would have supported this tax increase on smokers if bambi wasn’t the one behind it.

Just wait, they will come for you too. We been trying to warn you.

Bunch of hypocrites.

[SunkenCiv]

So? Who sez socialism is intended to benefit the poor?

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