[F.J. Mitchell]

"This tax is a voluntary tax. If you don't smoke you don't pay the tax." Smirks Wesson. Sounds like the CEO of the snake oil division of Wesson. By his reasoning, all taxes are voluntary. If you don't eat you don't pay food tax-if you don't work, you don't pay income tax-If you never accumulate property, you never pay property tax-If we impeach all the politicians and never elect another one, we don't pay any taxes at all.

[Schatze]

If we impeach all the politicians and never elect another one, we don't pay any taxes at all.

I vote for this option.

[Jesse]

By his reasoning, all taxes are voluntary...

Democrats aren't the only ones who pull this crap. Here in Montana, our so called Republican Governor, who ran on a pledge of no new taxes, floated a 2% gross proceeds "fee" on all medical providers in the state. In a letter she said that this would be a "voluntary" fee...in the sense that, if you don't provide medical services, you wouldn't pay the fee. And it was a fee, mind you, not a tax.

Anyway, I hope this goes through. Making it mighty tempting to go into the smuggling business. Anybody have a big motor home I can gut out for sale, cheap?

[Wolfstar]

Someone posted a thread here on FR the other day about "the coming World War." I figure it started on 9/11/01, and the first big mistake the enemy made was missing the Capitol while the House and Senate were in session! [This sardonic commentary brought to you courtesy of a sick-of-taxes, let's-put-all-the-politicians-on-the-front-lines Wolfstar mood.]

[Max McGarrity]

I LIKE it! Let's write that up and send it to the brain-dead lawmakers in Sacramento. Click on the link at the bottom of The United Pro Choice Smokers Rights Newsletter and WRITE these idjits. Also, check out RYO Magazine and look into making your own for $8/ctn!