Oh thanks ok!!!! I kept reading and couldn't find what I should have found! That's ok! Don't worry about it!!!
Posted on 08/10/2002 8:51:32 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:41:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
California cigarette smokers may have to cough up more money to help balance the state budget, but recent history indicates most of them won't resort to desperate measures to avoid a tax increase on their habit.
"There will be some who will look to buy their cigarettes out of state or online or at the Indian reservations," said Dave Hayes, research manager for the state Board of Equalization, which oversees cigarette taxes. "But the majority of them will shrug their shoulders and pay the tax."
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Of course it does. That was the whole point, to show how obnoxious and illogical Conservatives can be by using their own arguments against them.
"My battle right now is to keep the things I consume legal. If that makes me a 'scum Conservative" in your opinion, so be it. In my opinion it shows common sense."
Your efforts will fail because your root principles have been compromised by the WOD.
"Your entire attitude is out of line and your comments uncalled for. "
The presentation was designed to irritate those with thin skins.
And again you use the same broad brush. What you say may very well be true about some conservatives, but not all, not by a long shot.
Your presentation did nothing more than make a futile attempt at muddying the waters by mixing apoples and oranges and using unneccesary ad hom attacks.
This keeps up and I'm going to have to figure out how to grow and dry my own tobacco.
The more the nanny state tells me what to do, the more inflexible I become in my desire not to do what they want me too.
Well, living up here in northern Maine, our summers are WAY too short. I'm not sure how we could ever grow our own tobacco. We are happy buying it down town for now at $5.75 a bag. So, I guess we will deal with rest should it happen.
It IS a real mess, isn't it?
Who are you talking to? I must have missed something. If it's Max, he is one sharp man and VERY intelligent!
Oh thanks ok!!!! I kept reading and couldn't find what I should have found! That's ok! Don't worry about it!!!
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