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Very nice comments, FastCoyote -- true logic and kindness. One day, I hope the "food police" come to your home and look for twinkees, potato chips, etc. You should really thank smokers for your income taxes not increasing. I, frankly, am disgusted by the governments taxing certain items/groups, and that includes my fellow GOPers. If the governments need increased or decreased revenues, every taxpayer should be required to pay more in taxes or get refunded taxes. That's the true American way.

You're absolutely right! By targeting small groups of people and selecting them for special taxes, Government can get higher taxes than if everyone had to pay. Small groups don't have the voting clout to stop them. And everyone else just says, "Well, at least I'M not paying the tax". Divide and conquer.

"One day, I hope the "food police" come to your home and look for twinkees, potato chips, etc. "

Let them come, as a libertarian I am as clean of vice as the driven snow. Conservatives on this forum, however, have long been clamoring for more police powers to crack down on "druggies". The logical progression is for police powers against evil tobacco users, alcohol imbibers, and twinkieholics.

I am just quite bemused that Conservatives will soon become "libertines" as these vices are outlawed, yet they have no one to blame but themselves. I just hope the lash is applied with vigor to these scum Conservatives who will be wantonly defying the rule of law everytime they gorge themselves on Big Macs. They had a chance to speak up against the WOD, but now the same rigid liberty robbing mindset will be applied to them.