yup, if they do this, then they are truly throwing the constitution out of the window, and they will mercilessly, and unfairly, just continuously increase the tax on us smokers, who, i'll remind everybody, still constitute 22% of all of Americans...22%! Just taking it straight up the ol' bunghole at the hands of fiscally irresponsible, elected shmucks that have been asleep at the wheel for the last 10 years while all the crooks out there have stolen our retirement accounts. We need a major overhaul. they want to do a cap and trade on the carbon credits and pollution side of things..ok, well, let's discuss this radical idea, earmark tax dollars for things specific to those persons being taxed, or at least, apportion a large piece of it, b/c at the end of the day, this country was founded largely on the back of "no taxation without representation", and when you tax 22% of the folks, indiscriminately, on a LEGAL product, and do nothing whatsoever aside from persecuting them anywhere they would choose to congregate, that sort of sounds like the beginnings of an Orwellian 1984 scenario, and that my friends, is not a world i think any of us want to find ourselves living in, so get active in your local communities, use your power to write, email, phone, participate, and get your views represented b/c these guys in congress are just making stuff up as they go along.  |