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re: LA Legis trying to increase tax on cigars, pipe tobacco
Posted on 6/3/15 at 10:19 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Posted on 6/3/15 at 10:19 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Cigarette smokers cost a shite ton in health care costs. They should tax them to oblivion. I assume you are cool with social welfare and free medical.
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Posted on 6/3/15 at 10:22 pm to Artie Rome
Cigarette tax is being increased by about 63 cents.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 10:26 pm to Artie Rome
quote:Uh, no.
I assume you are cool with social welfare and free medical.
Should they also tax fast food, unhealthy food at grocery stores, and alcohol?
Posted on 6/3/15 at 10:29 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Slow down Mr. Slippery Slope.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 10:30 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Slow down Mr. Slippery Slope.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 10:34 pm to Artie Rome
Fatties cost more than smokers.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 10:37 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Fatties smoke. Poor people are fat. Poor people smoke.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 10:42 pm to Artie Rome
Life is about pain, hate and misery. A cigarette is one of the few things that can give a person a glimmer of happiness. Why do you want to tax happiness?
Posted on 6/3/15 at 10:43 pm to Artie Rome
as much as i hate poor people, i don't support sin taxes
Posted on 6/3/15 at 10:49 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
If you knew how many people on Medicaid smoke a pack a day you might change your tune. Poor, obese, diabetic...you pay for their medicine and in-home care. And you pay for their cigarettes.
I'm for the legalization of drugs. As long as they are taxed at a level that would provide the money to offset their health costs.
I'm for the legalization of drugs. As long as they are taxed at a level that would provide the money to offset their health costs.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 11:22 pm to Isabelle
Good thing cigarette manufacturers have deals on them. Camel usually has $0.75 off per pack
Posted on 6/3/15 at 11:30 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
It's fundamentally stupid to base a budget-saving tax on something under the guise of preventing the behavior you are taxing.
So, if it works and people stop smoking, we're still up shite creek; if it doesn't, then we just tax-fricked citizens for poor cause.
So, if it works and people stop smoking, we're still up shite creek; if it doesn't, then we just tax-fricked citizens for poor cause.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 11:47 pm to USMCTiger03
The problem is that when they start making money, they'll immediately find something new to spend it on and nothing gets fixed
Posted on 6/4/15 at 9:50 am to Hammertime
Who cares? Everybody cool has already hopped on the vape train...[exhaling a monster cloud of strawberry watermelon mangorita]
Posted on 6/4/15 at 9:57 am to GreatLakesTiger24
quote:
I assume you are cool with social welfare and free medical.
Uh, no.
Should they also tax fast food, unhealthy food at grocery stores, and alcohol?
1. Alcohol is already taxed LINK
2. We should add a sin tax to junk food and fast food. We should do like NYC and tax for large sodas, but instead tax by the ounce for all sodas and junk food. Then use the money to help pay for medicaid and Obamacare or its replacement.
3. Tax the frick out of smokers
Posted on 6/4/15 at 10:05 am to Artie Rome
Am I getting this right? Tax increases should be reserved for the poor, obese and/or addicts?
Yet wealthy people and businesses should pay nothing, ever?
How does that solve anything?
Yet wealthy people and businesses should pay nothing, ever?
How does that solve anything?
Posted on 6/4/15 at 10:05 am to Artie Rome
quote:
If you knew how many people on Medicaid smoke a pack a day you might change your tune.
Do tell... I assume you have some figures and aren't just blowing smoke out your arse.
Posted on 6/4/15 at 10:07 am to Asgard Device
Oh look another "but State Police got a raise" moron.
That isn't from state funds. It is money that will come from a revenue stream from uninsured drivers penalties (that yall love to bitch about, rightfully so) and not money from tickets (because most of you idiots think LSP gets money from traffic tickets... They don't).
Second, OT and Poli Board loves to bitch about police being dumb and unprofessional. Well State Police wants a raise that will reward the Troopers who choose the career because they are held to a high standard and train more than any other police around here.
Third, everyone loves to bitch about New Orleans crime. State Police starts sending troopers (some from all the way across the state away from family) to work the French Quarter, and a bunch of firearms and dangerous drugs and dangerous criminals get arrested, and it goes back to number one, bitching about their raise. Get a clue sometimes people.
In before :well we know who is a cop now: I am not.
As to the OP, yeah it's common occurrence and its bullshite. That is all.
That isn't from state funds. It is money that will come from a revenue stream from uninsured drivers penalties (that yall love to bitch about, rightfully so) and not money from tickets (because most of you idiots think LSP gets money from traffic tickets... They don't).
Second, OT and Poli Board loves to bitch about police being dumb and unprofessional. Well State Police wants a raise that will reward the Troopers who choose the career because they are held to a high standard and train more than any other police around here.
Third, everyone loves to bitch about New Orleans crime. State Police starts sending troopers (some from all the way across the state away from family) to work the French Quarter, and a bunch of firearms and dangerous drugs and dangerous criminals get arrested, and it goes back to number one, bitching about their raise. Get a clue sometimes people.
In before :well we know who is a cop now: I am not.
As to the OP, yeah it's common occurrence and its bullshite. That is all.
Posted on 6/4/15 at 10:08 am to USMCTiger03
quote:
It's fundamentally stupid to base a budget-saving tax on something under the guise of preventing the behavior you are taxing.
So, if it works and people stop smoking, we're still up shite creek; if it doesn't, then we just tax-fricked citizens for poor cause.
Yep. Feeble minded pawns like Artie Rome fail to see anything is wrong with an arbitrary band-aid tax increase because it doesn't affect them. Until it does.
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