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To: SheLion
SheLion, I had the pleasure of talking to a social worker / abuse councilor here this past weekend. ( just a social meeting folks and shes really a nice lady )

She was expousing how fantastic indiana's tobacco campaign has been and how her work within the state legislator had helped lead to these "improvements'. When I asked her who's taxes she was going to raise after she had eliminated smokers who now pay these taxes for the children.........she was at a loss, never had thought past that. In fact she said well there are other sin taxes we can use, there are alot of health issues we can use to reclaim that money and "of course make everyone healthier".

I asked what she meant i.e. alcohol or fast food or what? With a smile she said that I would be amazed at how the indiana legislator was going to RESTRUCTURE our lives in the next 2-3 years. She was absolutely beaming

All I could think was thank god I'm moving to Texas.

4 posted on 04/03/2006 3:58:15 AM PDT by Kakaze (I'm now a single issue voter.....exterminate Al Quaida)
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To: Kakaze
She was expousing how fantastic indiana's tobacco campaign has been and how her work within the state legislator had helped lead to these "improvements'. When I asked her who's taxes she was going to raise after she had eliminated smokers who now pay these taxes for the children.........she was at a loss, never had thought past that. In fact she said well there are other sin taxes we can use, there are alot of health issues we can use to reclaim that money and "of course make everyone healthier".

See?  The Tobacco Settlement created monsters within each state and the coalitions for a tobacco free everything are being paid their salary's by smokers tax dollars.  Should everyone quit smoking, these idiots would be out of a job.

And so many people still do not realize that smokers who pay taxes on cigarettes are flipping the bill for everything.  Not the government and NOT Big Tobacco.  But the smokers!

I asked what she meant i.e. alcohol or fast food or what? With a smile she said that I would be amazed at how the indiana legislator was going to RESTRUCTURE our lives in the next 2-3 years. She was absolutely beaming

Wonder what the heck she meant by that?!

All I could think was thank god I'm moving to Texas.

Texas is a good state.  You should be happy there.  Except for this illegal alien business.  Always something, I guess.

6 posted on 04/03/2006 4:03:18 AM PDT by SheLion (Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
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To: Kakaze

The only result I see in Indiana is all those stupid television andradio commercials. That's a lot of money down the drain. Millions from that stupid tobacco settlement could have been spent on other things. The only groups coming out ahead are the lawyers, advertisers and the media.


11 posted on 04/03/2006 5:00:25 AM PDT by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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