Oddly enough, they're only going after tobacco, not other goods"<<<
Just step one, they will get around to everything else in due time.
It's the government trying to protect us from ourselves. If they punish smokers hard enough, they'll quit smoking. Well.....that's happening in big time numbers. They just raised the tax another 60 cents a pack. They have to, because there are fewer smokers now to pay the tax. When there are no more smokers, golly gee Wally, where will the government get the money? You don't suppose they'll start putting extra taxes on other stuff, do you? Like cheeseburgers and soda pop? Those are supposed to be bad for you, too. How about skateboards and roller blades? People get hurt on those things, y'know. Gosh, it sure is swell that the government wants to take such good care of us!
>>>"it sure is swell that the government wants to take such good care of us!"<<<
It is amazing that these Politicians never think about "cutting spending" I think I can help them
(1) Term Limits so they have no reason to spend "our" money to buy votes.
(2) A Law that I can support would be that nothing, no Highways, Schools, Bridges, Buildings etc etc etc can be named after any Politician or former Politician until the SOB (or SOB'et) has been dead for at least 20 years.
(3) Fair Tax (one of the things the Fair Tax will do is discourage "Social Engineering")
TT