[Howlin]

A bump to the crooks, not just the ones in California.

[yoe]

It's high time we gave the "golden goose" to all like Grey Davis and spend those $$ on the Indian reservations or buy from the Net or some place that discounts a carton of cigarettes. The Quick Stop stores are also to be boycotted when it comes to buying cigarettes as they hike prices on a pack as well as chewing tobacco and cigars.

[martin_fierro]

The Democrats, you see, hate smoking so much that they are planning to make it the state's golden goose. They of course see no contradiction between discouraging smoking and depending on it.

Pithy statement, that.

I assume that if cigarette taxes go up -- in an amount some pointy-headed academic has deemed will cover government-funded health costs -- my taxes (as a nonsmoker) will go DOWN elsewhere. Sure.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Indeed, given their prodigal spending habits, they can only hope that Californians' nicotine habit grows.

Shouldn't this be prodigious?

[AmericanCompatriot]

People have got to stop thinking in terms of Repulicrate and Demicans. The two-party system has failed us because LIBERAL Replicrats have infested the good ole' party.

It's time to start assessing people based on their conservative merit. Unfortunately, 90% of the population is too stupid to name who their elected officials are, much less understand their political standing.

He who makes the most noise and gets the favor of the liberal-media will always be champion. The people just need to BE TOLD who to vote for. George Orwell was so right....it's scary.

[goldstategop]

The liberal pols in California are blowing smoke in people's faces. The problem is essentially not this or that tax but spending pure and simple. And without a real permanent limit on state spending we're virtually guaranteed to repeat this farce for years on end. If Republicans had guts they would change the issue to let's have a spending limit. The Rats dread addressing it and as their political games in the State Capitol illustrate, they'd rather do anything than put the ax to the statist behemoth in California. Its time to roll the size of government back in this state. Let's hope it focuses Republicans' minds to the job at hand.

[Just another Joe]

And liberal Republicans

Didn't this used to be an oxymoron?