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Originally Posted by dc_dux
The beneficiary of the SCHIP program are the lower and middle class income groups, even more so with 2 million jobs lost last year. The program's approval level is among the highest of any government program. The overwhelming majority of the public wanted it expanded after two Bush vetoes. And 4 million additional kids (one fifth of whose parents are probably smokers, using the general population stats on smokers) will be eligible for health coverage.
Its easy for anyone at any income level to avoid this tax "increase".....QUIT SMOKING. It will even have the side benefit of improving your health.
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this is an obvious problem for anyone who actually wants to promote freedom and liberty. The government is not supposed to have authority to tax activities higher than others in order to prohibit one that isn't healthy. The power to tax is the power to destroy.
This is why the single payer health package and universal healthcare should be discouraged at all costs. It will only encourage nanny staters to increase taxes on unhealthy activities so as to prohibit them, thereby forcing others to live lifestyles that only they approve of.
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