Obama victimizes the poor and helpless

So much for caring for them.

I shudder to think of what he'll go after next when the tax hike causes the number of smokers to dwindle and the revenue stream into the massive health care expansion to dry up.

But... I thought corporations just took the hit when tax increases happened. I thought the little guy was ok?

This tax, I'm guessing, is supposed to discourage an unhealthy lifestyle. With that in mind, get ready for fast food taxes and more alcohol taxes. But I'm guessing you'll never see a condom tax because that would hurt Barney Frank's feelings.

The Damn Hippies™ think that "safe sex" is safer than abstinence.

Doesn't happen.

Smokers are addicts. They'll keep paying.

A single pack is ten to thirteen dollars where I live, because there's so much tax on it.

And the smokers keep paying.

OH SHUT THE FUCK UP

Cigarettes? Are you fucking kidding me? You're going to fucking rail against a cigarette tax by using the poor? Goddamn Bock, I knew you were off the reservation, but this is just nuts.

Go join Stormfront you loon, we don't need your shit here.

Yayyyyy! The Nanny State strikes again!

I'm going to mail a teabag tag and some Marlboro Miles to my Congress Critters.

I'm off the reservation? You're the one whose spittle is practically flying out of the screen.

I never claimed to be sane.

So... where did anyone else in this thread claim sanity? And is not claiming sanity like the Chewbacca defense?

Bock Bock is crazy and discredited?

Great.

Wow. Judgment has come and gone and no one bothered to bring me my medication.

You have a habit of not taking them.

There are but two possibilities:

People will continue to smoke, in which case the government exploits an unhealthy practice to gain revenues; or

People will decrease smoking, in which case the government will seek to make up those revenues elsewhere.

Cuz they sure as heck ain't going to cut spending...

No, they think that safe sex is more likely to happen than abstinence, and less likely (than unprotected sex) to result in an unwanted pregnancy.

Since when are smokers the "poor and helpless"?

Democrats counting on taxing them certainly don't want us to think so.

They probably don't want us to think that the moon is made of green cheese either. But that doesn't necessarily mean that it is.

It's called a sin tax, and while I think it's stupid to have sin taxes, this has nothing to do with "victimizing" anyone. I can only hope the extra revenue goes toward programs to help people to quit if they want to.

It's interesting that this tax is pushed by the same crowd that wants to keep religion out of the public square when some policy is pushed for moral reasons.

lolwhut?

Why, Barney doesn't like the feel of cum spraying up his blowhole? It's not like he can pregnant at his age. Maybe he's worried about disease with all those boy hookers he has to use to get any.

It would be a better idea to legalize marijuana and tax the fuck out of it.

But then again, nobody ever said the government was bright.

It would be a better idea for the gov't to follow the Constitution and stay the fuck out of our lives as much as possible. Somehow very little the gov't does these days seems to be about staying out of our lives.

Frank needs to die of painfull rectal itch.

And he needs to give Sylvester the cat his schtick back.

So is it legal to grow your own tobacco?

I believe so, yes.