A retail sales tax sounds better that an income tax… tax stuff once only instead of over and over… no taxes on income not even FICA, economic security is national security.
Our constitutional republic is the worst system of government- except for all the rest. Our system is the least bad …
Got questions about a retail sales tax? It’s the least bad system to fund a government.
It takes a tremendous amount of will power to quit an addiction, right?
In the same way it takes will power to beat cancer or heart disease or glaucoma.
So what is so unreasonable about saying that will power is lacking in people who can’t quit an addiction?
Is it unreasonable to say will power is lacking in people who aren't cured of a disease yet? If they'd just get some will power they'd cure it.
Hitchens is not saying addiction dies does not exist, he is objecting to the idea of calling it physical disease or “allergy of the body”.
I disagree on both parts. He is implying that addiction does not exist, that addicts lack the will power to stop and that said lack of will power is the sole source of the problem. Luckily, he is not an addict [neither am I but I have known a number of them closely.]
I stand by my assertion - Hitchens is ignorant. The fundamental problem in discussing the issue is that those who have not had experience with the issue or lived through a loved one suffering from addiction are simply ignorant. They're not being intentionally vicious, they just don't understand.
Having seen addiction run its course it’s pretty clear that it’s a neurological issue.
Hitchens is an ignorant snob in this video.
Does Hitchens think that a lack of willpower is what has people drink until they lose their job, their home, their family and frequently their life? Does he think they willingly put drinking above their children and spouse?