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Old 04-02-2008, 11:12 AM   #62 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
I want MORE lead in my children's toys! I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!



Wow, I guess someone dug up Jonathon Swift, reanimated him, taught him how to use a computer and signed him up for TFP!

Either that, or this is the most unintentionally funny statement in the most unintentionally funny thread in Politics in a long time.

Coal miners ned a better quality of life? They work in a fucking coal mine! They almost all unilaterally want to die in explosions, roof collapses or from black lung!
Heh, that was a tongue in cheek statement but seriously, WTF? I understand banning smoking in offices, train stations, stadiums, etc. Places where people gather together to do things other than smoke and drink. But BARS? It really blows my mind.

re: On Topic conversation: I can see why the FDA doesn't want the job, although nicotine is a drug it's not a helpful one. *IF* we are going to do this I want an existing agency to take care of it and they most closely fit the bill. We sure don't need another bureaucratic subsystem leeching money through inefficiency.

Smokers aren't going to quit and that's probably a good thing overall. It's a tax on the poor and misinformed (edit) or addicted (/edit) and if everyone suddenly quit tomorrow there would be a LOT of revenue that needed to come from somewhere else. The tax in question here is levied fully on ~20% of the population so it's easy to get it increased through the mainly non-smoking public.

Tax junk food next. I'd be willing to pay twice or three times what a candy bar is actually worth, who's with me?
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