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Re: Re: Corbin
You asked, "Would someone please changes things? You know how to do it right?"
Answer: Absolutely I know how. Get involved, and inform other people so they can vote intelligently next election. Go to meetup.com and search for groups in your area; the themes Glenn Beck and Constitution are likely to give the best results.
posted by
WriterofLight
on April 18, 2009 at 8:06 PM
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My father used to smoke for casual pleasure. BCA, Bill*s Roost
posted by
BC-A
on April 4, 2009 at 10:07 AM
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You have a point there! He is a LOBBY man!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on April 3, 2009 at 10:40 PM
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Re: Re: Corbin
Thanks for the idea of a future post. Keep'em' straight and right in Kentucky!
posted by
RedStatesMan
on April 3, 2009 at 7:41 PM
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Re: Corbin
Exactly, cigarette tax increases also affect the middle class and that is why Obama gave us an extra $15 a month to buy them for at least 6 months then that expires, HA! Yep, stupid dumbass not worthy of the office, Obama screws the middle class too! Would someone please changes things? You know how to do it right?
posted by
RedStatesMan
on April 3, 2009 at 7:40 PM
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Corbin
Cigarette sales tax has nothing to do with income. If peopel want to buy cigarettes, tehn it is their CHOICE to pay more taxes by buying them. No one is making anyone but cigarettes. If people don't want to pay those taxes, then they simply stop buying cigarettes and their taxes won't go up. It is in the end a person CHOICE if they want to pay extra in taxes by buying cigarettes. Obama has not forced anyone to have to pay more taxes. Congress passed the higher tax on cigarettes and yes, Obama approved it. But it is not a tax that anyone has to pay if they CHOOSE not to buy not buying cigarettes.
You really do seem to not understand freedom in the least. You keep showing you dislike the idea of people having choices and control over their lives.
posted by
kooka_lives
on April 3, 2009 at 5:06 PM
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"I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes." Barack Obama Dover, NH September 12, 2008
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on April 3, 2009 at 4:39 PM
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Taxes
Two points, one more significant than the other
1) When Obama talks about his tax plan, he was obviously referring to INCOME TAX. To my knowledge, that is the only tax based primarily on how much you earn. (Hence the term Income Tax). That's why when right-wingers talk about the poor, they always say "People earning under 'X' pay no taxes", they mean no income taxes. Everyone pays excise taxes, sales taxes, etc., etc. If you are intellectually honest, you know that's what he was referring to.
2) More importantly, this cigarette tax increase was the funding mechanism passed by Congress (Including at least 9 Republican Senators & 26 Republican Representatives) to fund the S-Chip program to provide health insurance for poor & lower-middle class children. Get that? Passed by Congress. Blame Obama for signing it, but he is not responsible for it. He wasn't even in office yet when it passed!
All spending and tax bills originate in the Congress. The President can't "raise" taxes. He can only approve or veto them. Blame Congress including the 35 Republican Congressmen for voting for it.
posted by
VanArsdale
on April 3, 2009 at 12:17 AM
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See how many more are going to be broken...good write...
posted by
Kayzzaman
on April 2, 2009 at 9:54 PM
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Writer, that is really pushing it
The tax increase is on the cigarettes. If people CHOOSE to buy them, then it is fully their choice to pay that tax. No one is forced to buy them and there is no need for anyone to buy them.
If those who make under $250,000 a year cannot afford them now, then that is a positive thing in that it will get them to spend their money of needed things and hopefully they will stop smoking. Those people need to figure out their priorities and make a CHOICE about if smoking is worth it or not.
To try and say this is a tax on those making less than $250,000 is really as absurd as it gets. It doesn't effect me in the least, well maybe ti does. By getting people to see how wasteful it is to smoke (Since the stop smoking hot lines are busier than ever right now thanks to this tax increase) maybe we'll get more people to take better care of themselves and we will have less people getting lung cancer and other ills related to smoking, which should make health care cheaper for all.
Seriously, can you find one LOGICAL and/or REASONABLE argument agianst this tax? I seriously am not seeing one. sure those who wish to make the CHOICE to waste money on smoking are going to have to spend more, but that only shows where their priorities really are.
And then of course one of the weakest point sis to try and criticize Obama for this tax when he is a smoker and if he keep smoking the tax will effect him. So he created a tax that he will be paying just as much as anyone else who CHOOSES to smoke. While you talk about how he can easily afford it, it is still him paying that tax if he makes the CHOICE to keep on smoking.
posted by
kooka_lives
on April 2, 2009 at 7:40 PM
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