In article <3353e31gf3amedmp82j3uukur7n3k9vo62@4ax.com>,
Jack Hamilton wrote:
> Kurt Ullman wrote:
>
> >In article ,
> > Lloyd Parsons wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> LOL, we aren't paying higher taxes to get us to quit, we are just an
> >> easy target for tax increases. If we all quit today, where do you think
> >> the politicians would go for all that extra money? New taxes, bet on it!
> >
> > Had an rather interesting graph in the Indy Star within the last
> >couple weeks. Showed smoking had gone down considerably,
>
> The number of smokers, or the number of cigarettes/cigars smoked?
> Perhaps there are fewer smokers but they smoke more.
I don't remember right off. I think it packs bought or some such,
because I was thinking it was much less liable to screwed up by people
lying to the surveyor.
>
> >yet tax
> >receipts had increased. Guess the taxes are going up at a higher
> >percentage than people are quitting. So, it would appear that is easier
> >to give up smoking than it is to stop enacting new taxes.
>
> Many government programs will be in trouble if the anti-smoking
> campaigns succeed.
Nope. They will just be transfered to the General Fund. Nothin' ever
goes away.
K |