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Originally Posted by sortie
Why?
So that people will have to cut back and buy less and thus hurt the business
that sell it so that the biz owners house cannot be paid for to create a mortage
crisis that requires a bail out that "nobody" is talking about right now?
Ok.
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I was being facetious. If you don't know the word look it up.
The fact is EVERYTHING can be dangerous and to tax it as such is fucking stupid. Who cares if someone wants to kill themselves with smoking. The same with drinking, I only mentioned that to get a reaction from all the drinkers.
Alcohol is just as deadly as smoking and to think it shouldn't be taxed because it is somehow different is also stupid. I have known more people who have died from the bottle or suffered some physical ailment than people from smoking. I have even known more people who were killed by drunk drivers than by cancer from second hand smoke.
Taxing is not the answer, for ANYTHING. It is just another get rich scheme by the boys on Capitol Hill. They should try doing their job for a change and make laws about where you can smoke rather than robbing from the smokers.
I also brought up alcohol because those who may hate smokers probably drink and it carries health and public dangers too. They would bitch too, just like you, if their poison was being infringed upon.
Kind of why I cried... Ohhhh, the hypocrisy in a later post.
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