[onemiddleamerican]

Smokers will be taxed to the point that most will quit smoking. Tax revenue from that great plan will drop to (near) zero.

And then the feds, greedy for those lost tax dollars, will have to find something else to tax.

Eventually they will choose to tax something that will make Drango's life, liberty and pursuit of happiness prohibitively expensive.

[Eric Blair 2084]

Well said. We need 97 million more like you who get it.

Once smokers have been coerced to quit by their parents/government in exchange for their reverse allowance, the next step is the fatties and drunks.

If Gubmint is paying for your healthcare, it’s their right, indeed their duty to intervene and reduce the costs for taxpayers.

Why should my tax dollars pay for the bariatric surgery for some fat ass or diabetes meds for somebody who could have prevented this through “lifestyle choices”?

[BARLF]

When the Nazis came for the communists,

I remained silent;

I was not a communist.

Then they locked up the social democrats,

I remained silent;

I was not a social democrat.

Then they came for the trade unionists,

I did not speak out;

I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,

I did not speak out;

I was not a Jew.

When they came for me,

there was no one left to speak out for me.

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One could change this to taxes.

The argument for taxing smokers brought the above to mind.

(Wiki)

[JamesP81]

Eventually they will choose to tax something that will make Drango's life, liberty and pursuit of happiness prohibitively expensive.

And on that day, all shall have their justice. Of a sort.