Posted on 04/02/2009 12:30:38 PM PDT by Mind Freed
No Mrs. Brown, this brings us one step closer to socialism. Thank you for taking your part in destroying our country. How much more do you think you assholes can get away with?
Once they ban it, all those poor children will be without health care...
This vote brings us closer to putting a deceitful and dangerous industry under the watchful eyes of government regulators,”
Like the banking and auto industries...
Buy more Altria stock. This ruling will effectively sanction tobacco and make it a virtual Monopoly. MO and LO are your stock tickers. Buy it, right now.
heh...surely you jest..
you’ll simply note a large increase in your license tag fee every year, or more $ for that six-pack, or some other fee that’s been increased to pay for it..remember the first rule of government..
once a program is installed, it will never be done away with..
So will you have to get tobacco products from a pharmacist? Seems like I recall something about condoms being behind the counter at the pharmacy back in the 50’s. If so that quite a reversal. Then it was her kids have a smoke but no rubbers for you to here’s a condom but no cigarettes for you kid. Which reminds me of the old joke about a guy who couldn’t keep his cigarette it in the rain and his buddy says to put a rubber over it, so he goes to the pharmacy and asks for a pack of condoms. The pharmacist asks what size and he replies, Oh about the size for a camel.
I’m a non-smoker. I dislike tobacco. I dislike smoke.
Having said all that, I also believe that it’s a person’s right to decide if they want to smoke and for the most part, where and when they want to smoke.
What bothers me most is Big Goverment’s overpowering desire to tax the hell out of this product - all on the basis that it’s unhealthy and bad for you.
If tobacco is really as bad as Big Government and the anti-tobacco groups say it is, why hasn’t there been an attempt to completely ban it?
The reason is that Big Government (whether it be on the state or federal level) is addicted to the revenue that comes from taxing the hell out of this product.
Banning it would wipe out a major source of income for all their pet projects and overall govt spending. They’ll never do that.
This is actually a prelude to legalizing marijuana and probably certain “hard” drugs. Bambi expects to make lots of tax dollars off of drugs in the future. He’s just putting the infrastructure in place here with nicotine, which is extremely mild, practically on the level of tea and coffee, when compared to any other psychoactive substance.
In addition to having the potential to make lots of money, drugs will keep the libertarians happy and keep the people zoned out and tranquil.
Major ditto’s to your statement!
Bingo!
That's when the rest of the poor slobs get the bill.
So has the ATF become the AF?
Wait until the F goes under FDA as well... After that, no doubt the FDA will take over the activities of the DEA as well. Soon, the FDA will be running “JBT help wanted” ads... The uniform and badge and jack-boot manufacturers are going to have a field day...
This kind of legislation would make it more imperative for Congress to enact Universal Health Care.
who have already proven that they dont know what to do about what they are supposed to watch.
I don’t like this at all. Not that I mind regulating cigarettes, they should be heavily regulated. But this power belongs to the States, not the federal government.
The power to control smoking belongs to an individual. The Founding Fathers must be spinning like tops.
Very well put...
they should be heavily regulated.
WHY?
NONSENSE.
We regulate salmonella and penicillin. We regulate who can get a drink at 2:00am. We regulate people putting a tanning factory next to your house. Some regulations are good and some are bad. But the power to regulate is clearly constitutional.
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
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