timesjoke
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In a discussion I had today with some friends we were talking about "sin taxes" and how they will effect the average person who would pay the tax and how it will have the secondary harm of hurting families.
In recent years we have seen massive tax increases in things like tobacco products and even recent talk of more taxes for foods that are bad for you like the soda taxes that are proposed.
In my opinion those who are abusing these things are not going to stop abusing them just because we raise the taxes because those who are addicted to eating excessively and using tobacco are exactly that, addicted and if we crank up the cost, then these people will take money away from the care of their family to pay for their addictions. I can't tell you how often I see what appears to be poor people buying tobacco products while a baby wearing only a diaper is in their arms or still sitting in a running vehicle and not even in a car seat.
This goes back to my normal commentary that everything the liberals do actually hurts the people they claim to be trying to help. Cap and trade will hurt every poor household trying to heat their homes in the winter, but they want to do it anyway.
"It is 'sin' to pollute, so let's screw the poor people in the azz."
And yet, these same poor vote for thes guy pushing these agendas at every election.......I just don't understand that.
In recent years we have seen massive tax increases in things like tobacco products and even recent talk of more taxes for foods that are bad for you like the soda taxes that are proposed.
In my opinion those who are abusing these things are not going to stop abusing them just because we raise the taxes because those who are addicted to eating excessively and using tobacco are exactly that, addicted and if we crank up the cost, then these people will take money away from the care of their family to pay for their addictions. I can't tell you how often I see what appears to be poor people buying tobacco products while a baby wearing only a diaper is in their arms or still sitting in a running vehicle and not even in a car seat.
This goes back to my normal commentary that everything the liberals do actually hurts the people they claim to be trying to help. Cap and trade will hurt every poor household trying to heat their homes in the winter, but they want to do it anyway.
"It is 'sin' to pollute, so let's screw the poor people in the azz."
And yet, these same poor vote for thes guy pushing these agendas at every election.......I just don't understand that.
