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Originally Posted by Azure
And despite your outright ignorance, or just sheer blind support(really can't figure out which, considering I used to judge you as a straight shooter)....the fact is that lower class people smoke more than upper class people do, so no matter how you want to defend what Obama has done, this WILL hit the lower class more.
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Well if we are going to go the "ignorance" route...
I smoke cigarettes and make considerably less than 250 grand a year. If I lived a couple hundred miles south of here, this tax that so infuriates you would apply to me.
But I wouldn't be infuriated. If the taxes on smokes go up, I volunteer to pay 'em or I stop smoking. I (and my likeminded lower class brethren who make less than 250 per) haven't seen our taxes increase, the taxes on a plant have been increased, and we can decide to pay them or not.
That being said, I do appreciate the "won't somebody please think of the stupid poor people who can't quit smoking" sentiments, so keep that up.