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pinksugarsub -> RE: Political Action Against Anti-Smoking Efforts (6/17/2008 10:35:54 PM)
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O, i forgot a group of P/pl who might engage in this kind of political activism: P/pl who have a smoking fetish.
Picture of smoking woman:
http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/linda_mcgoo/smokingwoman.jpg
http://links.smokesigs.com/
It's not a fetish i know much about...evidentially it's predominaely M/men who want to watch W/women smoking.
(There seems to be an infinite number of fetishes.)
To S/some P/pl who posted:
Can't Y/you read?
The Op said 'this is not an Op about smoking'.
O, well, i suppose the hijack was inevitable. Evidentially S/some P/pl cannot see the word 'tobacco' and not go off on a rant about their hatred of smoking/smokers.
To the P/pl who posted about sin taxes:
Here are some issues presented by their use as revenue streams for governments at all levels:
1. This is a form of 'regressive' tax, meaning it is imposed at a higher effective rate on the poor than the wealthy.
2. The increase in 'sin taxes' have an adverse effect on the revenues of companies that manufacture or provide the subject of the tax. Higher bed taxes -- fewer tourists.
3. Very high sin taxes can create a 'black market' opportunity for criminals.
4. Use of 'sin tax' revenue streams to fund recurring budget items, such as corrections, is a common government folly, especially as taxes on property, etc., continue to decline.
A/anyone seriously believe that adopting a Lottery has enhanced education in any state?
A/anyone believe that the states who enjoyed the billions in money damages from the tobacco litigation used that revenue wisely?
Sin taxes are inherently unreliable income streams used to meet fixed or rising government budget items. As they fail to meet predicted levels, governments are forced to cut back on essential services any way possible.
For a discussion of the evils of sin taxes, see the following link:
http://www.ctkidslink.org/pub_detail_159.html
See also:
quote:
The First Law of Demand
The First Law of Demand, the central principle in market economics, recognizes an inverse relationship between price and quantity. Holding everything else constant, an increase in a product’s price leads to a decrease in its quantity sold. Economists present this concept graphically in the demand curve (see Figure 1 on page 3); a downward sloping curve with price plotted on the vertical axis and quantity plotted on the horizontal axis.
http://search.abanet.org/search?q=%22sin+taxes%22&btnG=Go&entqr=3&output=xml_no_dtd&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&sort=score&entsp=0&client=default_frontend&ud=1&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&proxystylesheet=default_frontend
Click on 'Newsletter'; the second item listed.
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