Well, I'm about to be off to run sound for a charity event. It's in a little Illinois town about 2 hrs from St. Louis, and since I'm riding with one of the organizers, I'll be stuck there from about 1 p.m. to god-knows-when. Think I'll bring along one of the laptops just in case I can find an open wi-fi, or at the very least write and read some of my e-books. I spent some time talking to the headline band; they seem like nice guys, hope I like their music.
It's been a weird and depressing week. Cigarette taxes are going thru the roof, seems like I'm going to be denied my stupid simple pleasure-vice for the sake of underwriting health-care for everybody else. It's pretty pathetic; they'll tax cigarettes in the name of recouping health care costs due to smoking, but nobody thinks to tax the fattening, unhealthy fast-food that makes so many people obese and undoubtedly contributes more to ill-health in our society than cigarettes do.
Oh well, that's it for now.
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The tax on tobacco is just another attack on smokers. Using money to "Help" people is just an excuse. When states won those lawsuits against the tobacco companies several years back the money was supposed to used to "Help" people too by education and medical treatment of smoking illnesses. To date not a penny has been used for those things. The states just dumped it in the general fund and spent it on pet projects.
ReplyDeleteThis tax will be the same. It's just a method of punishing those who do something unpopular to general society. People who smoke now have to appologize for it too. Look at how Obama makes excuses. No one can just say "I'm smoking and it's none of your business so kiss my butt", which is the correct response.
you're right on the money, Duke! As long as they can find a scapegoat, it will look like progress! And this is another part of why I don't go to restaurants and bars anymore...
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