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1 posted on 03/29/2006 1:30:19 PM PST by neverdem

2 posted on 03/29/2006 1:31:14 PM PST by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)

No big deal to those with a socialist mentality.. and many many conservatives have a socialist mentality.. Little wonder being brain washed from their youth in the public school system.. Even many of those that think they don't, do..

The Social Security Sysyem is a socialist boondoggle.. pure and simple and few they be that will admit it.. and OWN the crime..

3 posted on 03/29/2006 1:40:33 PM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)

This is a great article. I'm just so glad to see stuff like this get out to the larger public. It wouldn't have seen the light of day 10 years ago.

4 posted on 03/29/2006 1:54:16 PM PST by Sunshine Sister

Spot on.
The tobacco companies haven't spent one thin dime out of their own pockets to pay for the MSA. It's ALL, let me repeat that, ALL come from the smokers' pocket.

The states are so dependent on this "revenue" now that they can't do without it.

Don't smoke, smoke 'em if you got 'em, no - don't smoke, smoke 'em if you got 'em, no- wait- don't smoke.

Is it any wonder the smokers' can't get their act together. They are hit with opposing messages all day long.
(From the Bugs Bunny cartoon) Which way did he go? Which way did he go, George?

5 posted on 03/29/2006 2:00:05 PM PST by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)

Instead Philip Morris et al. are paying for protection against their competitors, and they are passing the cost on to their customers, the very people whose victimization by Big Tobacco supposedly justified the lawsuits in the first place.

I have known this from the beginning, and arrange my life appropriately. I make sure all my cigarettes are from no-settlement sources, any way I can.

The big tobacco companies rolled over for the government criminals; No loss for them, they were happy to act as tax collectors and maintain their profits, and they will be rewarded accordingly.

Had they fought the government with the money they have spent anyway, I would have no problem with paying the increased costs, and I would have some respect for them.

Also, the reach of government may have been attenuated somewhat.
The way things turned out, every two horse town has license to violate the Constitution with impunity, financed and emboldened by "free" tax moneys from the very taxpayers that they are assaulting..

7 posted on 03/29/2006 2:14:34 PM PST by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)

Regressive tax on the poor. Their "settlement" doubled the price of a pack.

9 posted on 03/29/2006 2:46:42 PM PST by mysterio

I love the "freedom" Americans have.

11 posted on 03/29/2006 4:02:44 PM PST by Visalia

Man, it never stops. I don't much care for handguns -- but I'm getting one this weekend 'cause RATs keep trying to undermine the right. I despise cigarettes, but I swear I'm gonna start sending tobacco companies cash just to subvert the freaking US Congress, otherwise known as THE COSA NOSTRA.

13 posted on 03/29/2006 4:16:27 PM PST by noblejones (Ben Stein for President, 2008.)

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the mafia can only wet dream about doing this kind of crap and getting away with it

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17 posted on 03/29/2006 9:09:18 PM PST by freepatriot32 (Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)

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