16 Days And Let’s Tax the Poor.

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[nateriver]

It took only 16 days for President Obama to break his campaign promise not to raise taxes on the poor. When President Obama signed the SCHIP bill, increasing the excise tax on Tobacco products by 156%, he raise taxes on 55% of smokers who are the “working poor” and the 25% of smokers who live below the poverty line. This bill is to provide health care to many of these smokers’ children. If he cared about the health of these children, the purpose of the cigarette tax would be to deter smoking because many children from homes of smokers require expensive medical care for respiratory symptoms. How is President Obama going to pay for a program when the source for funding the program will dwindle by design? How many days till President Obama breaks another campaign promise?

[Madame Dufarge]

It used to be in America every time something was taxed, there was a riot, because Americans use to understand the principle that the power to tax is the power to kill.

Yet you're in favor of "sin taxes within reason."

I don't get it.

Local governments have no more moral justification for imposing "sin" taxes than state or federal governments do.

[Force of Truth]

Local governments have no more moral justification for imposing "sin" taxes than state or federal governments do.

I beg to differ, the federalism principle allows tighter control at local level. Blue laws, for example, are perfectly legal on a state and local level. I'm not saying it's always a good idea, and I'm not saying places like Denver or Michigan can't exercise their rights to legalize whatever they want to. What we see now is an out of control federal government. Things would look a lot different if the Constitution was in full effect.

[SunkenCiv]

So? Who sez socialism is intended to benefit the poor?

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