If smoking is satan,why is the government in partnership with tobacco companies instead of outlawing it? Could it be because they don’t want to share the profits with people in the black market?
Posted on 07/23/2007 2:27:03 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084
I`ve grown tobacco for 40 years and yet to get
a gov payment. There used to allotments,like rice
and cotton,where you could grow so many acres or lbs.
Now you make a contract with the tobacco co. for
as many lbs as you feel you can grow
Getting ready to cut another field this week-end
You can get as much nicotine as you want, as long as you buy it from Pfizer or Merck in one of their NRT products.
“Why not place it in the same class of drugs as marijuana.”
That thought sexually stimulates law enforcement budget administrators.
>>So much for free markets and America’s free enterprise system.
So much for Sen Enzi`s lifetime ACU rating of 96.
So much for conservatism.<<
Yeah, something is wrong here - have see this story confirmed elsewhere?
What you're missing, if you read closely, is that they don't want you to stop buying cigarettes, they only want you to stop smoking.
In the Utopia these guys envision, you'll keep buying cigarettes, one or two packs a day, but you'll just throw them out and buy another pack or two the next day, so they keep up the tax collections.
That's what I was thinking, the state governments especially are hooked on tobacco taxes. The stuff will just come in illegally, and not be taxed at all.
Couldn’t help but notice hes a republican pushing this. This is the type of reason why I only support certain republican candidates not the party.
COMMIE SOB
Great. Then if someone wants to outlaw tobacco they should go ahead and propose that, instead of trying to eliminate its supply through a nefarious market manipulation cap-and trade scheme.
We’d probably save more if we banned homosexual behavior....since it causes AIDS, and AIDS gets waaay more health care money than it deserves. A hetero male smoker on average lives longer than a homosexual male...65 vs 45, If I’m not mistaken.
If smoking is satan,why is the government in partnership with tobacco companies instead of outlawing it? Could it be because they don’t want to share the profits with people in the black market?
Not to worry, ultra-liberals (and beyond). Marijuana, crack, and “illegal” drugs are not included. They are PC.
Not since Broke Back Mountain. Now, even the sheep are afraid.
Proof that NicoNazis come in both Ds and Rs.
I think there is more to this. Another "Republican", Mike Grosz, in the ND State legislature introduced a bill to ban tobacco completely. It was later learned that his motives were ingenious...expose the health groups in all their naked glory for the world to see.
Why not just ban tobacco completely? : This is a question that has been asked by FReepers with common sense. If it is so horrible and kills the consumer and everyone around them, how could the Gubmint continue to allow it? Everyone here knows the answer. In 2003, Rep. Michael Grosz, R-Grand Forks, a North Dakota Assemblyman introduced a bill to ban the sale of tobacco products in the state. Who showed up to speak against the proposal? Philip Morris? No. RJR? No. Convenience store owners? No. SheLion? No. Gabz? No. Me? No....The American Cancer Society, American Lung Association, and the North Dakato Medical Association!! Why? You guessed it...no tobacco = no money for them.
hamburgers next
As another poster noted: a black market will thrive.
These morons never learn that prohibition of popular substances, under whatever rubric, increases crime and doesn't begin to stop the behaviour ''prohibited''.
That’s what my husband is hoping for...it’ll be like Oklahoma when it was dry.
“They” came to your door and it cost no more.
Maybe in future I should do more detailed research before posting. (Naw, why spoil a post with something so mundane as facts? ;-)
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