Posted on 02/15/2009 6:58:47 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A proposed ban on smoking in most public places will be debated Monday in the Senate, and the chamber's top two leaders said Friday that the bill's chances for passage are good.
"If there are no substantive amendments, I would assume it would pass," said Senate President Steve Morris, a Hugoton Republican.
Senate Vice President John Vratil agreed, but cautioned that opponents will try to load it up with amendments.
(Excerpt) Read more at cjonline.com ...
PING!
Maybe we could STIMULATE the tobacco farms of North Carolina by asking everyone in Kansas to smoke!
Texas is also working on a smoking ban.
If these dumbass politicians keep this up, who is going to pay for their S-CHIP?
Unfortunately, today’s Republicans are just yesterday’s Democrats.........
AMEN!
LEARN IT, LOVE IT, LIVE IT!
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_012109/content/01125110.member.html
If one cannot understand Rush’s words above, then one does not truly understand FREEDOM!
The Kansas Senate is deciding whether or not to allow the people of Kansas to be free or be servants of the government. And the answer is.....?
All of us, smoker and non-smoker alike, of course.
And those are the EXACT words that Rush said.
It is unbelievable to me why there cannot be one place in any one state where adults can be adults. There is just no reason for it — none. We’re adults, not children.
Will one actually pass down there?
Read what this person posted:
‘MHCC Admin has strict Smoking Rules in place. Employees and Residents are required to go to the other end of the building to smoke. However at night, there is one security guard that let’s employees smoke at the front doors because he is also a smoker. His explanation is “the residents are in bed asleep so they don’t know that I let the employees smoke in front of the doors”. The same officer claims that Admin is aware of the exception that he makes and is fine with his decision to allow smoking at the entrance between 10PM and 5AM. In the meantime, the other security officers who enforce the smoking rules are disrespected by the employees and ge their life threatened all because of this one guard making exceptions. His reply to one guard was “sometimes you have to bend the rules”.’
http://www.smokechoke.com/mod/smoke/view.php?smoke_id=546
Vratil is a RINO.
Looks like we still have way too many Republicans who didn’t learn a F%&^ thing in 2006 and 2008
YEP.
>All of us, smoker and non-smoker alike, of course.<
Here in my state, KY, they just passed their own cigarette tax hike.
Head line from my local paper (http://www.somerset-kentucky.com/local/local_story_046013815.html):
“Tax hikes on alcohol, cigarettes have spared education funding cuts — for now”
For now? And they actually expect anyone to believe there will be education cuts?
Smokers can only be bled so much, especially when these smoking bans are being proposed. The tax revenues will eventually begin to fall off, and then what? I think the answer to that is crystal clear: since it is “for the children”, there will be no cuts, and the revenue will be made up by passing taxes on other goods...
I should have been more specific: For now? And they actually expect anyone to believe there will be education FUNDING cuts?
Education itself has been cut since I was in school. It’s the funding that won’t be cut!
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