Roy L. Fuchs: I'll tell you something. This country is going to the dogs.
You know, it used to be when you bought a politician, that son of a bitch stayed bought.
"You're the only person that decides how far you'll go and what you're capable of." - Ben Saunders (Explorer and Endurance Athlete)
Roy L. Fuchs: I'll tell you something. This country is going to the dogs.
You know, it used to be when you bought a politician, that son of a bitch stayed bought.
"You're the only person that decides how far you'll go and what you're capable of." - Ben Saunders (Explorer and Endurance Athlete)
A better question is why a state is allowed to have such a high margine of tax on a product? Why not a soda tax, a gasoline tax, an alcohal tax. Oh wait they do have those. Democrat lead governments tax products they dont like in society as a way to fund their agendas instead of taxing all products the same and allowing the free market determine the prices. Its a form of social control instead of allowing freedom.
Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you a radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal.
Roy L. Fuchs: I'll tell you something. This country is going to the dogs.
You know, it used to be when you bought a politician, that son of a bitch stayed bought.
You don't have "freedom" to impose the costs of your choices on others. We have gas taxes because they fund the roads vehicles drive on. We have tobacco taxes because tobacco use has a very high health cost on society. Smoking related illnesses cost us some 300 billion a year. https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_sta...acts/index.htm
I don't smoke, so why I should I have to pay for that?
"You're the only person that decides how far you'll go and what you're capable of." - Ben Saunders (Explorer and Endurance Athlete)
Ok, fair point. Now, in the spirit of fairness, it is not uncommon for smoking sin taxes to fund things that are not smoking-related at all, like child care programs. Why should smokers have to pay for that?
Here's just one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Califo...tion_10_(1998)
I've heard some say that good childhood development benefits everybody. Ok, I can go with that, but then if everybody benefits shouldn't everybody be taxed for it? Why only the politically insignificant smokers?
Roy L. Fuchs: I'll tell you something. This country is going to the dogs.
You know, it used to be when you bought a politician, that son of a bitch stayed bought.
I think a better solution than cigarette taxes would be to allow insurers to charge smokers whatever actuaries determine warrants their actual increased risk due to their smoking habit (insurers can charge smokers more now, but not that much more) and to increase Medicare taxes for smokers to whatever actuaries would determine is needed to cover their increased health risks.
"You're the only person that decides how far you'll go and what you're capable of." - Ben Saunders (Explorer and Endurance Athlete)