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Originally Posted by Juicy D. Links
I have my own Health Insurance and pay my own bills........ Sure there people uninsured and the burden falls on all of us....
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I wasn't referring to YOU specifically. MOST smokers are poor FACT. MOST poor people have no health insurance. FACT. And no it shouldn't fall on us that don't smoke.
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but why isolate it to smoking deseases?
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because that is the topic being discussed in this thread.
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Your argument just implies "smokers" what about alcoholics? Drug addicts?
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yes alcohol too should have extra taxes on it to help pay. Drugs? well drugs are illegal so ther for can't be taxed. If they ever legalized pot then yes add a tax for that too. I'm all for it.
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What about the person who has a rare deseases or whatever and is in the hospital and racks up huge bills paid fr by medicare or medicaid and such? We all pay into those "systems" you can isolate "smokers" as the sole cause of taking all the funds or whatever
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People who have diseases that can't be helped is something completely different that somone one who got lung cancer form smoking. Quit making excuses as to why I should pay for someonelses bad habbits.