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To: savedbygrace
Besides, this is just a Behavior Modification Tax. If it costs more to travel, less people will travel. You think that's a proper government function? Maybe you have some Dimocrat blood flowing through your veins.

Doesn't seem to have worked when they tried it with tobacco.

106 posted on 02/12/2007 2:18:52 PM PST by weegee (No third term. Hillary Clinton's 2008 election run presents a Constitutional Crisis.)
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To: weegee

Well, the pols don't really want to modify the behavior of too many people, or they wouldn't be getting as much extra tax money as they crave.

(Notice how I worked the word 'crave' into a reply to a post about tobacco? Clever, huh?)


122 posted on 02/12/2007 2:26:51 PM PST by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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