“They burden who is ever dumb enough to smoke.”
Although that.is true as more people become wise and quit the ruling class will move on to fill their addiction to revenue. Your support of behavior modification through taxing authority will come back to bite you some day. I’ve already heard a lot of talk of taxing “junk” food. You may not be affected by that one either but as their addiction grows they will expand the definition of “junk” to include whatever they need to fulfill their growing appetite . Some think red meat is unnecessary and adds to our carbon footprint. That will really upset me when they decide that they need to change our behavior on that for our own good.
Amen brother, Amen.
What I find succinct in what you say is who are the true liberals and who are the authoritarians?
I would suggest that we are more aligned with freedom.
We put that in a wide forgiving social frame work and the so called left tries to pigeon hole every thing and define us in their diversity/s
The Left is crazy.
I cant go off into a field half a mile away from any one to smoke(on my own time) and some one gripes.
But the same group of folks think we should make smoking pole mainstream and we should afford health care benefits to same sex partners with AIDS.
Honestly NONE of this stuff is the Govs business.
“Your support of behavior modification through taxing authority will come back to bite you some day.”
My comment in no way said that. Your defensive posture gave you that conclusion.