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Re: That didn't take long - Obama enacts first tax
It's been confusing the US government too, since Lincoln was in charge.
It's not the place of the Fed to feed you, educate you, provide your drugs, your retirement funding, your health care, and hundred of other things, yet suggest they stop and people *****. Stop bitching or stop wanting the Fed to coddle and take care of you.
It's not the Fed's job to ail out your bank, your stock broker, your favorite car maker, etc. Since last July the Fed has put us 11 -TRILLION- in the hole with all these botched bailouts, and they want more still.
Moneys going to come from somewhere. It's an Obamination. I saw it said in another thread about a Depression. Not yet. Soon. Soon as we fire up the Soup Kitchens and start lining up for bread again.
25cents a pack, so we can have health care for poor kids.
Never mind that only 5% will go to the kids, and the other 95% to a bloated maze of gov. inefficency to "manage' it, just like Medicaid and Medicare and any other gov. program. But, when we need to hire a 10th clerk for each applicant, we can add another 25c per pack on to cover it. Oh, and 5c per gal for gas too, just because.
Here's a thought. Smokers. Take a month off. I know, you can't do it you'll die, but do it anyway. According to the World Health Organization in 2000 35% of US men, 22% of US women smoked. Lets use the lower # here. 22%. 300 Million US population 2008 est). 66,000,000 smokers. The average smoker will smoke a pack a day, 20 cigarettes. For the sake of argument, we'll halve that. 15 packs a month.
66 million smokers x 15 packs a month = 990 million packs of smokes a month.
990 million packs x $1 pack Fed tax is $990Mil removed from the Federal budget
Pocket change to the Fed, but it'll be noticed.
Think about it.
Oh, assuming it is a pack a day, that bumps it up to at least a Billion and a half pulled from the Fed Trough. That will be felt.
State governments, which tack on the majority of the sin taxes will feel it even more ad 5+ billion if pulled from them.
Of course, such a tactic might also put a few tobacco companies under as well. So it's a dangerous tactic, especially if more than 15% of smokers fail to return to addiction after a month clean.
(From MartialTalk)
It's not the place of the Fed to feed you, educate you, provide your drugs, your retirement funding, your health care, and hundred of other things, yet suggest they stop and people *****. Stop bitching or stop wanting the Fed to coddle and take care of you.
It's not the Fed's job to ail out your bank, your stock broker, your favorite car maker, etc. Since last July the Fed has put us 11 -TRILLION- in the hole with all these botched bailouts, and they want more still.
Moneys going to come from somewhere. It's an Obamination. I saw it said in another thread about a Depression. Not yet. Soon. Soon as we fire up the Soup Kitchens and start lining up for bread again.
25cents a pack, so we can have health care for poor kids.
Never mind that only 5% will go to the kids, and the other 95% to a bloated maze of gov. inefficency to "manage' it, just like Medicaid and Medicare and any other gov. program. But, when we need to hire a 10th clerk for each applicant, we can add another 25c per pack on to cover it. Oh, and 5c per gal for gas too, just because.
Here's a thought. Smokers. Take a month off. I know, you can't do it you'll die, but do it anyway. According to the World Health Organization in 2000 35% of US men, 22% of US women smoked. Lets use the lower # here. 22%. 300 Million US population 2008 est). 66,000,000 smokers. The average smoker will smoke a pack a day, 20 cigarettes. For the sake of argument, we'll halve that. 15 packs a month.
66 million smokers x 15 packs a month = 990 million packs of smokes a month.
990 million packs x $1 pack Fed tax is $990Mil removed from the Federal budget
Pocket change to the Fed, but it'll be noticed.
Think about it.
Oh, assuming it is a pack a day, that bumps it up to at least a Billion and a half pulled from the Fed Trough. That will be felt.
State governments, which tack on the majority of the sin taxes will feel it even more ad 5+ billion if pulled from them.
Of course, such a tactic might also put a few tobacco companies under as well. So it's a dangerous tactic, especially if more than 15% of smokers fail to return to addiction after a month clean.
(From MartialTalk)
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