[HRC]

I can just see the re-write of the movie Untouchables. Where instead of the barrel busting scenes in the warehouses, we see Politically Correct Police Commissioners arguing about what to do with the illegal cigarettes. Since they cant burn them because of the negative health effects of second hand smoke. The PC Police chief arguing that burning that much tobacco at one time will cause the ozone layer to disappear. The whole scene ultimately ending in a confiscated warehouse and the cigarettes being stolen and sold again. Then the whole scene repeats until the entire stockpile is gone.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

State revenue forecasters maintain they took the illicit market into account when they originally projected the initiative would generate $130 million a year, most of it dedicated to improving health care for low-income people.

Projections have since been lowered by about $12 million.

Anyone still think the public believes these taxes are dedicated to the "improving health care" BS?

[Still Thinking]

"I can just see the re-write of the movie Untouchables. Where instead of the barrel busting scenes in the warehouses, we see Politically Correct Police Commissioners arguing about what to do with the illegal cigarettes. Since they cant burn them because of the negative health effects of second hand smoke. "

No, no, no: second hand tobacco smoke is harmless when produced by the anointed in pursuit of a socially conscious cause. (/sarcasm)