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To: spintreebob
Pre-existing due to lifestyle choices (tobacco, over-eating, addictions, crime, bad driving, promiscuous sex, etc) are totally different from pre-existing that are not life-style choices.

That statement displays gross selective stupidity.

Of all those monumental stupid lifestyle choices, tobacco is the ONLY listed destructive choice which has been taxed many trillions of dollars to pay for the results--- until elected criminals realized that they could syphon off most of those taxes to support old and new pet projects totally unrelated to smoking...

No one can claim the same for beached whale overeaters, drunk driver manslaughters, the pervert disease epidemic, drug addicts.

Nice try though.

43 posted on 01/09/2017 7:57:16 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: publius911

Tobacco, Alcohol, gambling, entertainment are all heavily taxed. Many localities heavily tax fast food.

Taxing brings collective responsibility to something that should be an individual responsibility.

A step in the right direction is to eliminate all Federal sin taxes. Let state and local government have that revenue source as they choose.


48 posted on 01/10/2017 3:20:11 AM PST by spintreebob
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