SCHIP tax..what garbage!
OK, I realize most people don't smoke so they don't care. These people should be asking themselves what things that they enjoy that the tax-man is coming for next. And I fully realize that smoking is bad for you and might even be considered stupid. Last time I checked though, it wasn't the government's place to take care of me by beating the hell out of me for enjoying a legal and voluntary activity.
This is wrong on many levels, not just because I personally enjoy a cigar now and again. This is not a minor tax increase...it is a draconian increase of dramatic proportrion. Over TWO THOUSAND PERCENT on loose tobacco, for example. And for what purpose?
To pay for children's health care for parents that can't afford health insurance. So, in effect, by one's enjoyment of a perfectly legal activity you are paying through the nose for someone else's health care - even if you may not have health insurance yourself. It's Communist bullshit.
They paint it as a way to 'discourage smoking'. Yet if everyone quit like they purport to want, who would fork over the money to take care of these kids? It's illogical. They simply pick on smokers because they are easy to demonize.
How many jobs are being lost, and at what cost to the community by this crap?
http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/i...eir_custo.html
There are a lot of mom n' pop cigar shops, and what of companies like Bugler who offer loose tobacco which don't enjoy huge sales to begin with? It's forcing people out of work for a nanny-state government to enforce a tax-and-spend agenda..against a segment nobody has any sympathy for.
I'm all about smoking-related illnesses and diseases not being covered under Medicaid or any publically-funded program, so you can save that argument.
You may not care now. Wait til they come after your beer and your cheeseburgers.
Obama, despite his lies, cares nothing for the working American. Where's my mortgage bailout? Oh, nevermind, I actually was smart enough to not sign my name to a crap variable interest rate loan so I get nothing. How about a check? Nope, because I actually work and pay taxes I get nothing. Help for my children's health care? Whoops, I made the mistake of actually paying for it myself and working. I should just become a goddamn parasite so I can reap some benefits from our Socialist BS government. Only the greedy, the irresponsible, and the lazy get help.
He was actually considering raising Tri-Care co-pays for veterans and billing veterans' insurance companies for service related injuries. A guy is ordered to Iraq by our government and now would have to pay for part of his treatment because his legs got blown off. I can't believe this idiot was voted into office. He's far more than demonstrably incompetent, he's evil.
And here is a man that gives to the English Prime Minister- in exchange for a unique historical item - a bunch of DVDs that don't even work in England. To the freaking Queen? A godddamn iPod! This is the type of moron we want representing our country?
Mark my words, let's see how many people are hip to the "hope" and "change" in a couple of years. This doesn't stop with the wicked smokers...somebody has to pay for these exhorbitant spending plans. And guess what? It will be YOU.
This is wrong on many levels, not just because I personally enjoy a cigar now and again. This is not a minor tax increase...it is a draconian increase of dramatic proportrion. Over TWO THOUSAND PERCENT on loose tobacco, for example. And for what purpose?
To pay for children's health care for parents that can't afford health insurance. So, in effect, by one's enjoyment of a perfectly legal activity you are paying through the nose for someone else's health care - even if you may not have health insurance yourself. It's Communist bullshit.
They paint it as a way to 'discourage smoking'. Yet if everyone quit like they purport to want, who would fork over the money to take care of these kids? It's illogical. They simply pick on smokers because they are easy to demonize.
How many jobs are being lost, and at what cost to the community by this crap?
http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/i...eir_custo.html
There are a lot of mom n' pop cigar shops, and what of companies like Bugler who offer loose tobacco which don't enjoy huge sales to begin with? It's forcing people out of work for a nanny-state government to enforce a tax-and-spend agenda..against a segment nobody has any sympathy for.
I'm all about smoking-related illnesses and diseases not being covered under Medicaid or any publically-funded program, so you can save that argument.
You may not care now. Wait til they come after your beer and your cheeseburgers.
Obama, despite his lies, cares nothing for the working American. Where's my mortgage bailout? Oh, nevermind, I actually was smart enough to not sign my name to a crap variable interest rate loan so I get nothing. How about a check? Nope, because I actually work and pay taxes I get nothing. Help for my children's health care? Whoops, I made the mistake of actually paying for it myself and working. I should just become a goddamn parasite so I can reap some benefits from our Socialist BS government. Only the greedy, the irresponsible, and the lazy get help.
He was actually considering raising Tri-Care co-pays for veterans and billing veterans' insurance companies for service related injuries. A guy is ordered to Iraq by our government and now would have to pay for part of his treatment because his legs got blown off. I can't believe this idiot was voted into office. He's far more than demonstrably incompetent, he's evil.
And here is a man that gives to the English Prime Minister- in exchange for a unique historical item - a bunch of DVDs that don't even work in England. To the freaking Queen? A godddamn iPod! This is the type of moron we want representing our country?
Mark my words, let's see how many people are hip to the "hope" and "change" in a couple of years. This doesn't stop with the wicked smokers...somebody has to pay for these exhorbitant spending plans. And guess what? It will be YOU.
posted by Soulend at 1:22 PM
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