Posted on 11/10/2007 8:15:04 PM PST by Bowtie52
The pinch is getting greater in many areas. You mentioned health care and that will be one. Small businesses have been feeling more and more of it for years. Gas prices play into that as well as into the price of consumable products. Illegal aliens also force small businesses into a Hobson's choice; hire illegals or cease to be competitive. For the employed worker they watch their wages fall or their jobs disappear altogether.
Being told to wear your seatbelt like a child and slapped around and insulted for smoking is just an irritant to most. When you find your choices in employment and health care reduced and degraded so far that you simply submit your family to what the government graciously offers or go without people are going to get very prickly. Add to it all greater identification requirements and more widespread data sharing, greater restrictions on self-defense, less effective LE and victim-hostile courts and the feeling of helplessness will become unbearable.
Anarchy has always been the natural response to tyranny. The question is whether it becomes organized and focused or devolves into a general lawless attitude where the populace just preys on itself and remains in a balance of tension as a vast underground vs the equally corrupt overworld of authority.
I will be visiting friends in NM soon where I can stock up on my favorite brand for about 1/2 to 2/3s the price I pay here thereby depriving CO of at least six months of confiscatory taxes.
Statement: “Vanity, We’ve all decided; You’re not allowed to Smoke!”<p.
Response: However, you are allowed to get drunk with drugs or alcohol, abort babies, commit infanticide, commit adultery, produce and market pornography,sodomize little boys, accept bribes, etc. etc.
That's already happening, smokers being the original class of "prey" that the other classes have smugly attacked with government encouragement.
The next group is that defined by the government as "obese," though it appears that alchohol users are in the bull pen.
It's all going swimmingly for the Nanny Staters so far.
I predict the underground wins, at the cost of a government that's given up any pretense to representing a "free" society.
Amazing how fast it all happened once the ball got rolling.
I think smokers are actually one of the latest groups to suffer the lash. But certainly not the last. The increase of laws and regulations restricting liberty has gone hand-in-hand with increased taxation and data collection reducing prosperity. Control is the ultimate goal. Control the economy through confiscation, redistribution and earnings suppression. Control the people through laws, regulations and balkanization.
Yes, I've been an arm waver from the beginning, saw it coming a mile away.
Control is the strategy, balkanization is the tactic.
Whatever you say, Jungle Queen. Okay if I call her "is"? Some don't even know what "is" means anyway! LOL
When the fat tax comes, and those overweight anti-smoking Nazi's become the target of the taxes, we'll see how they enjoy the tyranny then......
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