Posted on 02/12/2005 2:20:01 PM PST by SheLion
Not law enforcement. But the LAWMAKERS. And they are NOT right in their pursuit of this.
But I do mind when other people aren't carrying what is their fair share by law. That is one of the many little sociopathologies exhibited by New Yorkers.
Fair share of the law? When a legal commodity is priced so high in taxes to balance budgets, line lawmakers pockets, build big fancy gold courses, etc etc, this is FAIR?
And why do you think that 25-30% of the people who purchase a legal commodity should carry the damn state's budget on their shoulders?????
He has an irrational fear of Cigarrettes. Maybe a parent that didn't hug him enough used to smoke. Could be anything. It's the same hatred people have to guns, SUVS, etc. Its a mind disorder.
He obviously doesn't care how unethical these acts are, as long as they hurt those damn smokers they're OK in his book.
Well, I and many others are sick and tired of this war on smokers. The lies and the deceit just for the God almighty dollar has got to stop.
And it amazes me at how the anti's have brain washed some of the FReepers and the general public. We need to counter post the truth to TRY to turn these people around. I just feel that the non-smoking general public, (not all, but most), want to keep smokers on the hook just to protect THEIR pocket book.
The lawmakers with need to ban cigarettes altogether or ease up! But we all KNOW they won't ban it! The money is too good!
Thus, the term "SHEEPLE" was created.
Do you balance your monthly budget based upon what you MIGHT make in overtime? Same difference.
Therefore the money that does not come from cigarette tax has to come from somewhere else. I don't think I'm mixed up--just taxed enough already.
And smokers aren't?
You should be hounding your legislators about cutting prok spending in the budget - not hounding smokers for finding a cheaper source for their smokes.
I'm so glad I got out of NYC before EVERYONE went insane.
Okay, their legally determined share. We can argue all day and night about what's fair.
They would hardly be carrying the state or the city's gargantuan budget on their shoulders even if they were all to pay the cigarette tax.
So, since you're taxed enough already you advocate taxing the hell out of someone else? Spoken like a true lib. You might find it more compatible over on DU.
Hope to see you at CPAC.
I'm saying they should obey the law and law enforcement is not incorrect to enforce the law. That means I belong on DU?
I don't think I have such a definition.....I'll re-phrase - today has been a busier than usual day!!!!
Gosh SheLion, the "lawmakers" are the elite and without them in control how are WE to survive?
Ease off, sit back, relax and let the "smart" one's make the decisions for us. After all it has been shown to work in the last generation hasn't it? /SARCASM
Sorry, but it serves the Prohibitionists right that they are losing tax revenues thanks to Closet Boy Bloomingidiots "War on Tobacco.
ROFLMPJO!!!!!!!!! and you live in NY? Do you walk around with a gas mask all the time. I grew up in Brooklyn, and about got sick from the noxious air the first time I went back to visit after I had moved away.
Okay, so Katie Curick would call your day a "bad hair day"!
I'm just funnin' with you Gabz! : )
Your FRiend
EG
It's a stupid law. Prohibition was a stupid law. The Germans are very familiar with stupid laws.
Hypothetical:(only because they can't figure out how to do it yet) If they pass a law tomorrow in New York that every E-mail sent out from New York will cost a buck and you have the option of sending an E-mail from a site in New Jersy, what will you do? If you tell me you'll pay the tax I know you're lying.
They why are you so quick to believe the lies about smoking and second hand smoke?
It just seems to me that breathing is one of the most important things you do, and if you're breathing in cigarette smoke, you're doing that wrong. The idea that you are expected to breathe in carcinogenic particles exhaled by others wherever you go is one of the phenomena that will be looked upon in the future as, quite frankly, insane.
And why is it so ingrained in your brain, even with all the studies out there that second hand smoke is NOT the killer the highly paid professional anti's want you to believe? Why are you so quick to believe them and not us?
Do you realize that smoking cigarettes has been done for hundreds of years. How do you explain all of us still being here and alive and doing well? Don't you think that smoking over the years and even second hand smoke would have killed off the human race long before this? Please think, ok? You need to know that there is two sides to this story.
Wouldn't you be surprised if you could look in your crystal ball and see the evidence that in the future cigarette smoke is beneficial?
Preposterous, you say?
So was the idea of leeches for blood clot control and maggots for wound cleaning - both methods used today.
Have you ever used cigarette smoke blown in your ear to relieve an earache?
Ridiculous, you say?
Well, it works.
Take care gidget. Thanks for your support.
Huh??!!
Obviously firebrand has never sat at a bus stop long enough to see the bus's arrival for the diesel exhaust would have killed him.
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