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To: Thisiswhoweare
If you smoke, you brought illness on yourself ...

Funny, I never hear the pols proposing increased taxes on those who've contracted AIDS through risky sexual behavior or intravenous drug use. I guess the powers that be approve of those activities.

25 posted on 08/07/2002 3:32:04 PM PDT by Schatze
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To: Schatze
Good point. Thanks for widening the issue!
29 posted on 08/07/2002 3:41:21 PM PDT by Thisiswhoweare
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To: Schatze
"This tax is a voluntary tax. If you don't smoke, you don't pay the tax," said Wesson, D-Culver City.

This has to be one of the most hypocritical statements I have ever read. When these anti-smoking fanatics were bringing their lawsuits and demonizing the tobacco companies, they were telling everyone how the smokers were not responsible for their actions, because they were hooked on a drug more addictive than heroin. It was Big Tobacco's fault that people smoke. Now, anyone who doesn't want to pay these taxes should just quit. I guess these fascists have decided that tobacco isn't that addictive afterall, and that it is the individual's choice to smoke.

It's all about money and power over other people's lives. That is all these leftist fascists care about.

32 posted on 08/07/2002 3:46:01 PM PDT by SowellRocks
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To: Schatze
Funny, I never hear the pols proposing increased taxes on those who've contracted AIDS through risky sexual behavior or intravenous drug use. I guess the powers that be approve of those activities.

Only because they can't tax it.

63 posted on 08/07/2002 6:31:15 PM PDT by Great Dane
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To: Schatze
How about a condom tax?
71 posted on 08/07/2002 7:08:26 PM PDT by ijcr
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