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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: Paul V. who wrote (137171)7/7/2012 1:01:18 AM
From: Wayners  Read Replies (1) of 224750
 
I don't know what's in the transporation bill other than using the newly gained power to tax as a penalty to ban stuff after the Roberts decison. Their first easy target, and I'm not a smoker, is rolling your own machine rolled cigarettes. They set the tax so high, with the Roberts precedent to make it a ban based on the high tax which is now a penalty. They are testing the waters to take the Roberts taxing power to ban anything and everything it wants with simple tax increases. Before the decision, taxes had to be to gain revenue. Obviously if you raise the tax really high, it's a ban and it generates NO revenue. But now they can argue it does not have to generate revenue because its a penalty, and now a penalty that bans something as a tax is OK because of Roberts. What is the next item on the list? Where is this headed?
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