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Huntsman wants to push cigarette tax to $3 (Utah)
Salt Lake Truibune ^ | 1/07/09 | Robert Gehrke

Posted on 01/09/2009 9:45:53 AM PST by colorcountry

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To: Eric Blair 2084; All

Don’t you love some of these freepers who rail against Bush for increasing the size of Government and yet they have no problem having the government raising taxes on certain behaviors..


41 posted on 01/09/2009 9:20:13 PM PST by KevinDavis (Thomas Jefferson: A little rebellion now and then is a good thing)
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To: KevinDavis

We all have our pet peeves. I think octogenarian drivers in Oldsmobiles who brake on exit ramps should be banned. And smelly waiters who reek of BO. Tax them, ban them. It’s all fun and games until it’s your ox being gored.


42 posted on 01/09/2009 9:29:41 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: SoDak
What the *&^% is happening to this country?

We have a culture of "mooches" lead by the imbecilic mentality of our politicians.

43 posted on 01/09/2009 9:33:17 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: Eric Blair 2084

I think anyone who makes rude, obnoxious remarks about my smoking even when I am doing it a designated area ought to be chastised by the ACLU for “offending” me. Wait a minute! I’m a white male. I am incapable of being offended. If anything, I’m not offended enough. I should be forced to watch more asinine sitcoms and commercials where stupid, homely, overweight, out-of-it white men are constantly being out-foxed and made to look ridiculous by savvy women and terminally cool black men with washboard abs and tiny ears (not to mention their own, long-suffering kids.)


44 posted on 01/09/2009 9:49:18 PM PST by Dionysius
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To: Eric Blair 2084; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; ...



Libertarian ping! Click here to get added or here to be removed or post a message here!
45 posted on 01/09/2009 9:56:35 PM PST by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: Dionysius

I sentence you to the same punishment given to Gitmo detainees. 10 years of watching "Will and Grace" on TV while your wife/girlfriend forces you to sit and watch.

After 5 minutes they broke down and told us where the bomb was. They begged for death.

46 posted on 01/09/2009 10:00:53 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: colorcountry

RINO’s really continue to mostly harm the Republican Party as a whole political entity. What, if anything, the next RNC Chair does about all of the ongoing problems with RINO’s will determine the long-term future of the entire Republican Party. I seriously do hope that all of the RNC Chair candidates are paying full attention to all of the continuing problems involving RINO’s at each and every political level!


47 posted on 01/10/2009 1:24:05 AM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (Conservatives obey the rules. Leftists cheat. Who probably has the political advantage?)
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To: GreyMountainReagan

“Smokers are nasty sub-humans in the eyes of a Mormon.”


That may be, as you say, ‘painting with a broad brush’, but it’s precisely why The Stormin’ Mormon (Romney),and Huckabee, another religious health freak, reformed overeater and do-gooder, who were both responsible for shoving through statewide smoker bans, would never recieve my vote for any office.


48 posted on 01/10/2009 2:02:18 AM PST by The Ghost of Rudy McRomney (Stuck Between Barack and a Hard Place.)
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To: compman
Also, how do you stop youth smoking by 240%?

Your math is off. Percentages are relative. If you decrease something by 10%, and then again by another 10%, you have not decreased it 20%; you've decreased it 19%. If you decrease it by another 10%, you've decreased the original amount by 27.1%. As you can see, continuing this, you'll never get all the way to 100%, let alone 240%.
49 posted on 01/10/2009 6:14:48 AM PST by MinnesotaLibertarian
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To: Dionysius; Eric Blair 2084

I can’t believe I forgot that one on my list of people who the left despises.

White Male

Ever watch a safety or ethics video at work? Even where the setup is at a chemical plant, refinery or whatever, the unethical or stupid scared employee is the white male and the person reporting the unethical behavior or performing CPR is a minority female. All safety videos should be proceeded with a BARF ALERT and not for any gore that might be present.


50 posted on 01/10/2009 7:41:03 AM PST by GreyMountainReagan (Liberals really intend to increase the misery through their actions. Gives them power)
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To: The Ghost of Rudy McRomney; Eric Blair 2084

Agreed.

In my state, (Utah) the governor campaigns as a conservative. He gets elected then governs as a RINO. I am sick of it. Our past two governors were Mike Leavitt, (currently Secretary of Health and Human Services) and Jon Huntsman Jr. bot did this.

Huckabee? Sheeeeeesh. I knew to suspect him when a saw a MSM (doesn’t matter which program now does it) piece on him praising him for his weight loss and blah, blah, blah. That was about 5 years ago if I remember.

By the way, last I saw him he appeared to be gaining some of his weight back. Who cares.

In his mind he will control my life until my Body Mass Index (BMI) falls to the ideal range. Then that ideal range will be continually lowered until fat camps will be required of all. Then the ideal BMI range will be lowered until concentration camps (or plenty of rooms 101) will be required. It might take 20 years but we are headed there.


51 posted on 01/10/2009 7:53:21 AM PST by GreyMountainReagan (Liberals really intend to increase the misery through their actions. Gives them power)
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To: microgood

“There is no difference between the Republicans and Democrats any more. They are both enemies of the people”.

BUMP!!


52 posted on 01/10/2009 2:27:20 PM PST by 383rr (Those who choose security over liberty deserve neither- GUN CONTROL=SLAVERY)
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To: KevinDavis
Don’t you love some of these freepers who rail against Bush for increasing the size of Government and yet they have no problem having the government raising taxes on certain behaviors..

Bingo!

53 posted on 01/10/2009 5:58:15 PM PST by Mr. Silverback ("[Palin] has not even lived in the Lower 48 since 1987. Come on! Really!" --Polybius)
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To: WellyP
Make it $5.00 and I am onboard!

Tell us what sort of treat you like so we can tax it out of your reach.

54 posted on 01/10/2009 7:40:57 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: GreyMountainReagan
Nanny Professor

They mean well. RINO's and libs in State and local Gubmint think they are trying to heal the world and make it a better place. (Cue Michael Jackson song)

The comedy of the false premise that they can control anything when they can't even control themselves is lost on them.

55 posted on 01/11/2009 12:16:23 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

Why only $3? Make it $10.

And this week’s TIME has a blurb on the new danger - THIRD HAND SMOKE.

Well, one thing’s for sure, between SHS and THS, we Americans are the Kings of HandJobs.


56 posted on 01/12/2009 1:10:32 PM PST by swarthyguy ("We may be crazy in Pakistan, but not completely out of our minds," ISI Gen. Ahmed Shujaa Pasha)
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