Posted on 03/26/2009 9:43:44 AM PDT by sauropod
How's that hopey-changey thing working out for ya?
Think youse guys would be interested in this.
I think the frog is starting to notice the water’s getting a little warm...
I’m quitting as soon as my stock runs out.
They can extort someone else.
I’m encouraging them to go after the obese and the homosexuals. They are a bigger health risk anyway.
I’ll be growing this year as my stock forecast will dwindle in 2010.
I quit cigarettes several years ago for health reasons. But the fact of the matter is that this tax, like all sin taxes, is a regressive measure that falls disproportionately on the poor and working class. Most of your white wine sipping college grad Obama voters don’t smoke and regard those who do as troglodytes deserving of punishment. Here it is.
Some people are in for a rude awakening on April 1st.
I clicked on this thread expecting something about Clinton and Lewinsky.
“First they came for the cigar smokers. I said nothing because I was not a cigar smoker...”
Alcohol next on the list?
ping for interest
I’ve been trying to warn people I know that RYO is going sky-high and they just laugh at me, as if the government would do such a thing, ridiculous they say...
That’s what I get for talking to Obama voters
Glad I quit smoking 31 years ago.
I’ve laid in a 4 year supply of my favorite cigars. Hopefully this will get repealed with the new administration, like the luxury tax.
my neices and nephews school sent out a notice for a Parents Class, in spanish only unless enough ask for english, that would teach parents about anger control and understanding your spouse.
woohoo
True, but think gasoline. Tax increases on a commodity we all must use are also regressive.
These people are sowing the wind...
The statistics re smoking are as distorted as the AGW threat. They lied. There is no threat from 2nd hand smoke and the threat to smokers is vastly overstated. However, since the fashion changed they knew there would be no opposition. Since no one defended the principle, we allowed them to set the precedent. They can do what they want. Lie and pass whatever legislation they want because they know we will not fight back.
Oh well.
Y’know, I have read a couple of books fairly recently that I would say are must-reads:
Liberal Fascism by Goldberg
The Ominous Parallels by Peikoff (ignore the Objectivist pom-pom waving; most of the book is very good).
Falls right in with that notice your nieces and nephews got.
Time for Tobacco Parties.
Please, where can I find that entire passage, & do you know who said it? Before anyone says,"search is your friend" I HAVE tried...
Grow your own tobacco and pay no taxes at all. It’s easy and you get a lot per plant. Processing is tricky, but there are instructions all over the web. Nice looking plants as well if you let them flower
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