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The one thing I truly do not understand is how do you justify raising taxes on something like tobacco products and expect more income from that?
You get people who will refuse to pay the prices and quit, thus in actuality lowering the revenue you counted on.
From there what? Do you continue to raise those taxes until you have totally abolished that revenue? And if you do, then what? Do you start taxing other things the government deems "unhealthy" into a black market and where no revenue to speak of comes from?
I question government's true agenda when things like this are done, because it does not help revenue in the long run, it seeks only to control behaviors through taxing. By trying to control behavior through taxation, smacks our forefathers in the face and takes away the civil liberties and freedoms that they risked everything to fight for in building this country.
Ah, but what did they know? Those principles and ideas are outdated. To me freedom is never outdated and taxing behaviors out of the hands of the people is no, not, never freedom. It is the beginning of tyranny and a self righteous government that will crush anyone who questions it.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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