Well, knock me over with a feather, I didn't know you couldn't smoke on mars.You can't...... in what Maine lawmakers call "public places." Like restaurants, bars, taverns, sports inns and bowling alleys. Even though they ARE private businesses!
Partnership for a tobacco free Maine is a dictatorship and what they say goes. I can't stand them!
But we do have a LOT of smokers in Maine and this idiot knows it and is trying to make the elderly on Medicaid pay for it!
Gosh, I wish he was in my district. Because I sure wouldn't vote for HIM!!!
Public property: That which is purchased and maintained by tax dollars for the benefit of all people.
Private property: That which is not purchased or maintained by tax dollars and is for the benefit of the property owner.
Pri•vate
adjective
3. (of a service or industry) provided or owned by an individual or an independent, commercial company rather than by the government
Well, have faith! trans fats are the next evil. Soon we'll be eating greens and wearing fig leaves! It's good for us, you know. Unless there is an uprising, nothing will happen. Someone posted this to me the other day, and it's kind of scary if you analyze it:
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:
from bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to complacency;
from complacency to apathy;
from apathy to dependency;
from dependency back again to bondage.
Sir Alex Fraser TytlerWhere are we now?