Fuck those fucking smokers

Doyle wants to raise the cigarette tax another 75 cents, making the total taxes on a pack of cigs, $2.52, more than I could buy a whole pack for at the turn of the millennium. I understand that, as edgrimly would say, smoking is a filthy disgusting habit, that causes lots of health problems. He adds tax to them, and people will get more incentive to quit thereby improving their health and lowering the burden on the health care system from smokers, until they go in for another reason at least. So we're taxing cigs to discourage an unhealthy habit, but shit by that logic why not have Doyle add extra taxes to alcohol, fast food, and cookies? Maybe instead of excessively subsidizing it, why not put excessive taxes on high fructose corn syrup to help prevent diabetes and obesity, health conditions that I believe are far more prevalent than smoking related problems.

2 comments:

edgrimly said...

I think that it is really funny that the first round of grit taxes were supposed to go to the health care industry in the state, particularly child care. Until recently, when the child care industry here was discovered to be as corrupt as a Chicago governor.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, man. Tobacco man. It's totally from the earth, man. It should be free, man. We should be growing that shit in our gardens and homes like they used to do, man. I'm sick and tired of big brother always gettin on my case about this, man.

Hippie.