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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
Why is the state allowed to dictate whether or not your community allows smoking in public? What gives the state of Ohio the right, but not the federal government, to institute that smoking ban in your community? Shouldn't it be on a community by community basis, based on your logic? I'm trying to understand what's so magical about the state that is not magical about the federal government or the county, or the township, or the city, or the ward.
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They did this in Arizona. In Tempe, it was banned, in Scottsdale it wasn't. Plenty of businesses (from family restaurants, college bars, nightclubs, strip clubs, and other places) were impacted by it, and a lot just closed down and relocated. It didn't change how much second hand smoke people were breathing in, it was just in a different city.
Now, in Ohio, you have to drive up to Michigan (or another state that allows smoking indoors). That is a little longer trip.
As for the tea parties, I protested the IRS building in 2006 by myself (only for a minute). I have a great picture of it. And I have always said that we needed to pay down the national debt instead of giving out the Bush tax cuts and the stimulus checks. But, there wasn't any outrage back then. Now, only a few months into Obama's term, you would think that the tax rate was going up to 90% for everyone.
These people should thank the government for protecting them from the violent Anarchists who wouldn't think twice about killing them if there was no government, no laws, no police, no jail.