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To: Isara
You should probably move candy makers up to number 3, after guns but before car makers. Soda companies should be added. And, quite possibly, computer game companies could be added because they discourage physical activity.

Bottom line, this is taxation by alternative means. The trial lawyers get their fee; but the states get a large portion that they can spend as they wish. Note well what happened to the tobacco settlement - it went into state coffers, and how it is being spent, nobody knows.

As state budgets get tighter, and the public resists overt tax increases, you may indeed expect more taxation by civil suit.

6 posted on 05/21/2003 6:49:51 AM PDT by neutrino (Oderint dum metuant: Let them hate us, so long as they fear us.)
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To: neutrino; CSM
The targeted industries:

I'm not sure about red meat. There is no big deep-pocketed company for the lawyer.

8 posted on 05/21/2003 7:07:27 AM PDT by Isara
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