Sooooo. How are they going to make up revenue lost for the SCHIP program....you know, “for the children”?
That proposal went over like a lead balloon. That doesn’t mean they still won’t push for it, behind the scenes. They just won’t hold any more public forums, or else they may get more of the Tea Party (mad as hell!) Treatment with the cameras rolling.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
― C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)
These friggin MARXISTS want TOTAL control of the populace. If they can’t ban everything they just aren’t satisfied!
These people need to have their tires slashed. For starters!
Freedom for me, none for thee.
If Ben Franklin were alive today he’d say “ma’am, you can keep it”.
Of course they bring up “the children”! Yes, the children. the children the children, always the children because liberals in all their arrogance have declared that you are not good enough to raise your own kids thus they will do it for you.
Ping.
What would be better is if Marlboro MA changed its name
The people have a fundamental right to proscribe items. They do it all the time. Free people match into voting booths, and freely vote to regulate something.
Penicillin comes to mind. Dry counties are very common in some states. Society says incest is wrong. Porn needs to be regulated and behind the counter at the 7/11. Examples abound.
Some cites in Nevada, make prostitution legal. That is their right.
Why is it smokers believe they shouldn’t be regulated?
What goes around comes around. I hope they include chew, snuff, and those idiotic electric nicotine huffers.
Quick, buy a lot 1 block outside the town limits and heavily stock all the tobacco products that you can find...a get rich scheme sure to work!!....like all the booze joints on the edge of all the dry counties in Kentucky.
Is the Board of Health elected or appointed? If appointed, then fire them. If elected, then recall them.
Until 2005 Rockport Ma was the only dry town in the Commonwealth. The town itself voted to change that. As much as I personally object to prohibitions of alcohol or tobacco (I use neither) I do favor local control vs. federal or state control. If Westminster supports this, as wrong as it is, it’s better than Washington DC imposing school lunch menues.
You know what’s funny? I mentioned that story to my wife last night, without mentioning what state it was in, and I asked her to guess what state.
She guessed correctly! LOL. Its amazing its how obvious a nanny state Massachusetts is.
Its funny that my wife was able to correctly guess what state this took place in, when I asked her to after telling her the story without mentioning Massachusetts by name.