Bootleggers’ Delights

I wonder if we taxed EVERY fast food meal sold in america everyday JUST a dime, what would we have, concider JUST McDonalds alone serves on average 130 Million meals a day. Now add in the other places, wouldn't that be amazing? and who cares abougt a dime?

So what are you proposing? Should we get rid of taxes on cigarettes? Do you have a solution or just a knack for complaining. You sound like a Republican. Oh that's right, you are.

So what exactly is your solution? Take off the tax? You are a master and complaining but where are your suggestions? You must be a Republican. Oh you are that's right.

The lawyers and our court system sold us out. We had the tobacco companies and we let them go and condemned people's live around the world. A settlement was reached because the bribes were accepted. Tobacco was going to be deemed as a defective product and banned. The settlement allowed the tobacco companies to continue selling death and not risk double jeopardy prosecution. They would have paid every dime they had to settle the case because now they can make money forever. Mike Moore of Mississippi led the charge and we thought he was going to be the next governor of our state. maybe the next president. After the $500 million dollar settlement he dropped off the radar here. Did he get %10? If it were a defective baby carriage, would there be any question?
it's the republican way of life...or death.

The lawyers and our court system sold us out. We had the tobacco companies and we let them go and condemned people's live around the world. A settlement was reached because the bribes were accepted. Tobacco was going to be deemed as a defective product and banned. The settlement allowed the tobacco companies to continue selling death and not risk double jeopardy prosecution. They would have paid every dime they had to settle the case because now they can make money forever. Mike Moore of Mississippi led the charge and we thought he was going to be the next governor of our state. maybe the next president. After the $500 million dollar settlement he dropped off the radar here. Did he get %10? If it were a defective baby carriage, would there be any question?
It's the republican way of life...or death.

The lawyers and our court system sold us out. We had the tobacco companies and we let them go and condemned people's live around the world. A settlement was reached because the bribes were accepted. Tobacco was going to be deemed as a defective product and banned. The settlement allowed the tobacco companies to continue selling death and not risk double jeopardy prosecution. They would have paid every dime they had to settle the case because now they can make money forever. Mike Moore of Mississippi led the charge and we thought he was going to be the next governor of our state. maybe the next president. After the $500 million dollar settlement he dropped off the radar here. Did he get %10? If it were a defective baby carriage, would there be any question?
It's called the republican way of life...or death.

a 1.01 tax on smokes what will they do when noone smokes anymore?tax the air we breath>? maybe they should look harder at booze to tax heavery ,i forget this would get into there pocket book.

reading this seems that the environmentalists have pretty mush become a little grovement in it" self
this needs to stpo .i can't afford it mtself any more.my tax dollars are streached to far as it is.Where does it all stop???

Wow - how does the word liberal or conservative work into cigarette and lquor taxes to pay for kids health and education? Not only that but George Will states here that taxing coal use by environmental emmisions would have brought about scrubbers purchases just as effectively as mandated standards; except the republicans and blue dog democrats hate taxes and would rather all be rich (or dream of being rich by any scummy anti-social twist necessary) and comfy, tax-free, than to level the common good and save children and the air we breath. If government can't tax it can't pay for war or debt or raods or police or stimulus packages due to trillion dollar invasions of wrong countries, and 'de-regulation' of the national security of our fiscal and environmental health.
Grow up and take responsiblity for the United States, those of you who claim to love it. Me, me, me tax free is just another Enron and derivatives nightmare you are trying to wrap in a flag so the stench won't match the pollution from coal and low priced cigarettes both.

There is, of course, a political and psychological benefit derived by statists from government regulations that transcends purely economic issues.What can be regulated can be crippled or eliminated altogether at the behest of minority pressure groups.It also permits autocrats like His Honor the Mayor of NYC to use the law to oblige people to live in accordance with his dictates.Naturally, it is all a big hit with liberals.

Mr. Will:

Prior to President Clinton's inaguration, he asked citizens for advice to make government more efficient.

I responded; he didn't reply.

I wrote on the subject of state cigarette taxes: New York's is very high; North Carolina's, low; and then--as today--there was a brisk traffic in smuggling truckloads of cigarettes from NC to NYC.

I suggested that state cigarette taxes be eliiminated, together with the state cigarette tax bureaucracy, and that Congress enact a uniform federal cigarette tax, with carveouts back to the states.

The economic incentive to bootleg cigarettes would dry up and the states (collectively) could save millions in cigarette tax administration.

The same rationale, of course, applies to liquor.

Needless to say, my proposal got nowhere

Mr. Will:

Prior to President Clinton's inaguration, he asked citizens for advice to make government more efficient.

I responded; he didn't reply.

I wrote on the subject of state cigarette taxes: New York's is very high; North Carolina's, low; and then--as today--there was a brisk traffic in smuggling truckloads of cigarettes from NC to NYC.

I suggested that state cigarette taxes be eliiminated, together with the state cigarette tax bureaucracy, and that Congress enact a uniform federal cigarette tax, with carveouts back to the states.

The economic incentive to bootleg cigarettes would dry up and the states (collectively) could save millions in cigarette tax administration.

The same rationale, of course, applies to liquor.

Needless to say, my proposal got nowhere

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