re: #178 Walter L. Newton

I don’t care who got the new taxes started. It’s good for everyone. Many people may now consider quitting, which will be good, and if they continue to smoke, then they will be contributing to the services that may one day have to transport them to a hospital after a heart attack… or something like that.

Win-Win… don’t matter who suggested it… and the left LOVES this sort of government concern.

Uh huh, the left. They’re the only ones peering into people’s private lives. The right is the paragon of liberty and freedom for the individual especially when it comes to abortion, drug laws, gays and lesbians, freedom from religion, pornography, etc.

It’s not about getting people to quit smoking. It’s about raising revenue from one of the most popular vices in America, smoking. That’s fine. I think if I lived in NYC I’d quit.