What do you think of policy makers wanting to tax smokeless cigarettes just like regular cigs?
Did you see that article that was on the yahoo homepage..
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090329/ap_on_go_ot/tobacco_tax
the third line from the bottom:
“But smoking control advocates such as Lindblom say tobacco taxes should be even higher. “There’s a lot of room to go after cigars and smokeless,” he said. “We are certainly hopeful that health care reform will include some more increases.”
all of you people who said they are only going after smokers because it affects other people in the form of secondhand smoke are wrong. Just as patriots feared, the government is now using its power to decide what is best for other people too. First it was regular cigaretts, then other tobacco products, some states have the junk food tax, what next, are they going to send a government agent to my house to make sure I go to the gym and have good health so I don’t put a burden on the health care system, can they hold my hand when I cross the street too??? People who are so happy to see a pack of cigaretts go from $3 to $8 in the past 10 years because of governent intervention failed to see the conseseqences. You only focus on the statistics of the number of smokers decreasing, but lack the vision to see the poltical consequences. F you
Smokeless Cigarettes
I’m not a smoker but I do not agree with the government singling out people and deciding that they have to pay to support the health care for the masses. If you ask me it borderlines on unconstitutional. I guess Washington has forgotten what the Boston Tea Party was all about.
HAHA YESS! Were you aware that the government has to pay for the projects it takes on, like, i don’t know, the iraq war? rebuilding infrastructure? providing money to public schools? it get money from cigarette taxes. Although it sounds like you’ve already made up your mind, from a 17-year-old asthmatic non-smoker’s perspective, tax all goddamn cigarettes. Would you prefer it if the government got rid of the pure food and drug act, and just let us eat meat filled with rat meat and pesticides? or contaminated food was allowed on the market? i think not.
I am a smoker and it’s outrageous. I already pay more taxes than I have money. All the Welfare programs need to be looked at, none of them pay taxes on what they are given free.