“ You simultaneously ban and tax soda the same way you do with smoking…tobacco. Can’t smoke it anywhere these days, but they’ll let you buy it with much of the price going to the government.
— DemFools commenting on Riehl World View’s post titled “More On Health Care Reform,” which asks how you can simultaneously ban and tax soda
We continue:
2 years agoBTW, anyone else notice the odd phenomenon of a rash of “legalizing for the sake of taxing” marijuana stories these past couple days? It looks like many of the very same people that take the time to exhibit their displeasure whenever there’s a whiff of smoke around (manufacturing disapproving coughs and waving their hands at imaginary smoke curls in the air) do not fear the primary or secondary smoke of wacky tabacky. There’s a cloud of hypocrisy wafting in from the horizon.
