[Madame Dufarge]

By the way, notice Pravda on the Penobscot (Bangor Daily) chose a woman on disability to interview in order to divert the issue from confiscatory taxation of a legal product to a welfare recipient buying cigarettes?

Plenty of working people paying their own way who smoke, but let's conflate welfare recipients with smokers, lest some small sympathy for the shakedown victims seep out.

[383rr]

"Plenty of working people paying their own way who smoke, but let's conflate welfare recipients with smokers, lest some small sympathy for the shakedown victims seep out."






I noticed that right away, too.

It sucked in more than one person on this thread. So, I guess it worked.

[SheLion]

By the way, notice Pravda on the Penobscot (Bangor Daily) chose a woman on disability to interview in order to divert the issue from confiscatory taxation of a legal product to a welfare recipient buying cigarettes?

Plenty of working people paying their own way who smoke, but let's conflate welfare recipients with smokers, lest some small sympathy for the shakedown victims seep out.

You make a good point there, Madame! 

By the way, notice Pravda on the Penobscot (Bangor Daily) chose a woman on disability to interview in order to divert the issue from confiscatory taxation of a legal product to a welfare recipient buying cigarettes?

Plenty of working people paying their own way who smoke, but let's conflate welfare recipients with smokers, lest some small sympathy for the shakedown victims seep out.

You make a good point there, Madame!