Conservatives will distill, grow and roll their own astounding their friends and confusing the government.
Only till there are no more smokers or drinkers. Then it will be people who eat and breathe.
It wasn't broke until the dems decided they wanted to take it over. Out came the trial lawyers, the price skyrocketed, and now we have a "crises." Good thing the dems are here to save us from .......them?
My projection, if they increase taxes on tobacco, liquor, and soft drinks, it will cut down on consumption, resulting in less revenue than they had predicted from the consumption tax.
Plus a cut back on consumption of those products mean the corporations that produce them don’t make as much profit, don’t pay as much tax because they don’t make as much profit, and they will probably have to cut back on their workforce, resulting in layoffs.
Sometimes politicians can’t see beyond the end of their nose when it comes to action/reaction scenarios.
Just my 2 cents.
Your Government says, “Smoke and Drink! it’s for the children!”
There going to be taxing stills and black light basement hemp nurseries?
Taxing soda pop, cigarettes and gasoline hurt the poor the most. The lefties, while whining for the poor, exploit them for their own gain.
Psalm 10:
2: The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
3: For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
4: The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
5: His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
6: He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
7: His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
8: He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
9: He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
10: He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
11: He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
12: Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
13: Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
14: Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
15: Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
If they want a REAL vice tax, or sin tax - WHY don’t they tax ABORTIONS? That would help to make up for the Social Security shortfall that the Supreme Court’s abortion edict caused.