Posted on 07/15/2007 10:44:09 AM PDT by wagglebee
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Beautiful - now we all get to pay for this monkey ...
I would really love it if all the smokers stopped smoking, then watch the government start screaming about how they and the anti’s were wrong about smoking.
“With the number of smokers already declining, a tobacco tax would further reduce the number of smokers, thereby eroding the funding source.”
And this is a bad thing?
The law of diminishing returns will take effect, the higher the tax, the more people who will quite smoking, leaving the SCHIP short of funds, which will be covered by different taxes on non smoking sources.
Anything the libs can do to get one more program foisted on “We the people” no matter how the couch the terms or ideas.
El Rushbo predicted this years ago.
There’s already a growing black market in smokes out of Mexico and from “bootleg” producers in the south. The opening of unimpeded truck traffic out of Mexico within the year will only accelerate this trend. The lessons of Prohibition have been forgotten but the machinery for avoiding it is adaptible and already in place.
Ban smoking and expect smokers to pay via taxation.
Yeah, that will work.
Gosh, someone has earned their wages.
It’s a ‘’bad thing’’ because the Regress, when they see that their newest welfare programme hasn’t enough funds, will unquestionably whip up another tax or a series of tax increases on all Americans.
A group of people will always burden others for the sake of themselves.
Sadly, there are so few smokers as a percentage of the population we have put them to slave status and will tax from them anything we want.
People should e proud of themselves for figuring out how easy it is to take from others.
Your a loving person however if you think that the anti personal freedoms crowd is going to claim that their agenda is wrong all I can say is "your dreaming"!
LOL!
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If you don't see it as a bad thing then vote a liberal ticket my FRiend.
We call it CHIPS here. Awhile back they were begging for enrollees. The ones on Medicaid get free health insurance. The ones that must pay usually buy private plans.
so, as I’m understanding the logic, congress wants to impose a tax on a legal product that is illegal to consume in the majority of businesses across the country while claiming that we must further reduce the number of smokers countrywide, for their health, then want to base a new program on revenue from an activity they’re trying to eradicate all the while relying on more of what they’re trying to wipe out..is that about right?
these guys get paid to think like this?? hell, I could do that job..
It seems to me a people who would burden others for the sake of themselves can not sustainably have self-government. Like a lot of Americans I see if they could legally rip other people off they do it. Like selling shady mortgage products.. or lawyers taking jackpot settlements, or the countless people on the government doll. Our politicians are just as shady, rarely above taking money from lobbyists. Ceo’s selling out their employees for stock options etc..
At some point a majority of people need actual morality that they actually follow...or the society breaks down.
The only way I can see holding together a nation of people who couldn’t care less about the society’s well being, only thinking about ‘I got mine, screw you’.. is an iron fisted dictator, who keeps people’s greed in line with fear.
Yep, it defies logic.
And don’t forget black market smokes is also a major source of revenue for Islamofacism sleeper cells. They buy in low tax states like North Carolina and sell in high tax states like Michigan.
Two Universities reporting were:
1. University of California - Berkeley
2. University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign
Info went hush/hush as the anti-smoking zealots proclaimed that "all their hard work would go down the drain."
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