re: #712 Obdicut

As a Republican, I don’t actually have a problem with raising taxes, user fees, etc. My problem comes with knee jerk reactionaries who scream TAX TAX TAX. You wanna tax smokers because of health care cost? OK. But make sure that is where the money is going. Don’t come up with some stoopid pet project to deviate newly allotted funds. This is where I have a problem with people who want to raise taxes and just give it to the politicians. We need to see where it is being spent. And most people don’t do that. They are busy watching AI or DWTS or whatever. Politicians think they just have some big freaking kitty to pull money from.
If a tax is so Goddamned important that we need it NOW NOW NOW, don’t target one group.