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Originally Posted by kane
I like a lot of your ideas. I'm curious about your thoughts on taxing things like candy, cigarettes, junk food and booze to help pay for health care.
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sure. just like a toll road. user pays. i think that's very fair. if i want the convenience of the road and a faster way to get from point a to b... then i should be paying for it. a blind quadrapalegic who lives 5 counties away should not be paying for it.
if you want to live on cheese burgers and cocaine... be my guest. but don't ask me to pay for it when you end up in the cardiac center
you want to fuck your life up... I am all for that! 100% ... you're choice. Blow your head off... drive your car off a bridge... die climbing Mount Everest... just don't ask me to pay the consequences for your decisions. Climb mount everest? fine! put up the 1-2-3 million dollars that will be spent on the search and rescue mission BEFORE you climb... or fuck you,... you'll freeze to death until your family raises the money to pay for your dumb actions.
i think everyone should pay a proportionate share of the financial consequences to others for their actions.
going further, i would limit lawsuits in medicine and require users to pay attorney fees if they lose.
