The real death tax
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The real death tax

On the eve of the vote about banning smoking in all public places in Chicago I spent some quality time with my significant other. Being unemployed and basically broke we spoke of a “free Christmas” where we gave each other presents of sentimental value. She was angling for me to give up smoking. This is the thing she has angled for, for many years. We got into a discussion of the pending smoking ban as we sat in a non-smoking sports bar in Skokie Illinois. I am almost forty. I recall buying smokes for under a dollar a pack when I started smoking. Over the last twenty years smokes have increased 250%. This is the real death tax. They are taxing a dying population to recoup the cost on the healthcare system of all of the smoking related dieses. It is an attempt to wean us from the thing that is killing us. Of course we won’t be around long enough to organize to fight this unfair tax. It is sort of like taxing Heroin. We need it. We will pay.
Typically republicans don’t care they keep giving our money away to tobacco growers to plant other crops or not to plant at all. Besides less people means more money in the social security trust fund they can siphon off to spend on their war.
I am not promoting smoking. I just want to be able to go to my favorite watering hole and light up. I don’t blame democrats for trying to offset expenses incurred by the medical system from this industry. I think they should aim their efforts at the corporations that continue to profit from marketing death and not the helplessly addicted minions. But then again as I said we are a dying population. By the time we get organized most of us will be dying. Oh yeah, this is what democrats would call a funded mandate. Just out of curiosity put unfounded mandates in your browser. As always please beleaguer boisterously your elected reps about everything. Remember the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Mmmm grease.
TWR