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The funny thing is that the liberals and the Democrats don't want cigarrette industry to go away. They're predicating much of their spending priorities on a big windfall from cigarrette taxes, much of it spent on nothing that has to do with health issues. If they were truly serious about healthcare and health expenses, people's insurance bills would be rebated for the respiratory illness costs being 'rebated' by the tobacco smokers. Instead, they're spending it on more peripheral education programs that don't work and other public spending programs that have nothing to do with smoking. They'll likely to continue to enlarge the public health sector which continues to shift costs onto the rest of us. The day I'll take them seriously about a national health care system is when they propose that all people, including government workers, union workers, and politicians, have to pay into the system through a payroll tax just the same as small businesses, independent contractors, etc. Of course, as in dodging the draft, they'll have none of that. The Clinton's couldn't even pony up when they passed higher taxes in 1993 --- they dodged 30-40,000 in taxes by moving up their 250,000 Rose Law Firm bonus. |
