re: #372 UberInfidel67

So if everyone stops smoking…there will be no revenue for the “undocu….I mean “uninsured” Americans. How is this supposed to work?

Rather like the increase in taxes on tobacco products that went into effect April 1st will lead to ever-increasing revenue for childrens’ health programs.

One of the fundamental flaws in “sin taxes” is that those advocating them invariably assume that the money they collect for their “idealistic” programs will always be there, often in ever-increasing amounts. They fail to consider the element of human nature which holds that “if a luxury costs more than I think it should, I won’t buy it”.

Tobacco is a luxury item, not a necessity, just like spirits. If taxes make it too expensive, people who use it will cut back, or even quit. And what funds the childrens’ health programs, then?

Once more, the “enlightened ones”, and especially The One, are about to get an object lesson in the Law of Unintended Consequences. Of course, it probably won’t sink in.

/I’m anticipating tantrums, actually.

cheers

eon