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So Eric Garner's family is getting $5.9 million dollars. How awesome is that? Cannoli Send a noteboard - 16/07/2015 03:10:14 PM

A tax designed to both obtain revenue for the government, and to prevent people from dying of respiratory conditions has been enforced...at the cost of almost six million dollars and a man dying of respiratory issues.

You had ONE JOB, Cigarette Taxes!

You know those government-sponsored ads that portray cigarettes as tiny mullet-wearing bullies, by comparing the expense of cigarettes to being mugged, or having to go outside to smoke as being violently dragged away from preferred activities? Well, that's not cigarettes forcing you to do that stuff, that's the EXACT SAME people who made that ad! They are the ones who lobbied for all the laws that prevent even private businesses from allowing smoking indoors, or such excessive taxes on cigarettes. When I was a cashier in a drug store, a pack was $2.25. Now, when I buy them for my grandmother, they are four or five times that, due almost solely to taxes, rather than costs or inflation. A can of soda or a candy bar has gone up maybe 50 cents in the same time period. The government is the one who gave a tobacco habit all the unsavory characteristics they portray in their ads! It's like if the government armed police with assault rifles, and then turned around and accused them of civil rights violations when they gunned someone down...oh, wait. Bad example.

I like this outcome a lot more than indicting a bunch of idiot stormtroopers for following orders.

Cannoli
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- The Crownless

“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Deus Vult!
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So Eric Garner's family is getting $5.9 million dollars. How awesome is that? - 16/07/2015 03:10:14 PM 894 Views
...? *NM* - 16/07/2015 07:09:33 PM 319 Views
we need to stop giving away millions tax dollars and calling it justice - 17/07/2015 01:14:39 AM 445 Views
IDK, I got the impression hustle was a good thing - 17/07/2015 12:42:07 PM 622 Views
I bitched about going Off-Topic the last time I posted on this board... - 17/07/2015 05:22:29 PM 601 Views
Are you being ironic? - 18/07/2015 01:14:07 PM 613 Views
So what do you think he would have doing for money without the tax? - 17/07/2015 05:39:33 PM 525 Views
Who cares? That's his business. - 18/07/2015 01:16:44 PM 613 Views
You seem to care since you brought it up - 18/07/2015 01:28:46 PM 592 Views
why only some child molesters? - 17/07/2015 05:40:21 PM 590 Views
That is two jobs, not one; also, the government does not lobby itself. - 17/07/2015 03:09:15 AM 512 Views
the silly "unarmed" argument - 17/07/2015 04:57:32 AM 583 Views
All I heard was "no one 'needs' guns." - 17/07/2015 10:59:40 AM 680 Views
See, these are tyranny, because the cops picked the fights. - 17/07/2015 02:09:21 PM 559 Views
Cops picked their fight with Garner, too: Why is that not tyranny? - 18/07/2015 03:33:52 AM 566 Views
Re: Cops picked their fight with Garner, too: Why is that not tyranny? - 18/07/2015 01:59:41 PM 594 Views
The above question remains, unanswered - 09/08/2015 04:20:37 AM 591 Views
Sorry but almost everything you said was wrong - 18/07/2015 02:48:44 PM 603 Views
... was exactly that. - 09/08/2015 04:23:54 AM 528 Views
Sorry but almost everything you said was wrong - 18/07/2015 02:48:45 PM 585 Views

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