Originally posted by TheAmused
Over half of America will at some time have a std!!!!!

In 1998 costing Us the tax payer's 8 billion a year in diagnostic.

Half of america is not smoking or dying of cancer from smoking

The only money tax payers are spending on this stuff is for those who don't have health insurance, and your statistics include no information about whether or not these STD people have health insurance. Also, please keep in mind that just because you have an STD doesn't mean you're dying from it.

Originally posted by The Cyfre

Originally posted by TheAmused
Over half of America will at some time have a std!!!!!

In 1998 costing Us the tax payer's 8 billion a year in diagnostic.

Half of america is not smoking or dying of cancer from smoking

The only money tax payers are spending on this stuff is for those who don't have health insurance, and your statistics include no information about whether or not these STD people have health insurance. Also, please keep in mind that just because you have an STD doesn't mean you're dying from it.

cost or death it's the money is my point.
vs what tabacoo user's use
And guess what NO Official u.s GOV document tell's exactly how much money tobacco user's cost Joe taxpayer.

It says cost 92 billion ect...
But have you seen actually records that many didn't have insurance ..and not Leeching of the government.
That's classified info. lol

[edit on 12-3-2009 by TheAmused]

Consider this folks! Carbon tax.

Contrary to what Al Gore says, carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. It's the very gas that trees breathe to live. It's the source of their food, namely carbon.

The bastard tries to get the ill-informed mixed up between carbon 'di'-oxide and carbon 'mon'-oxide. Carbon dioxide is what you and I exhale. It's what trees inhale. Carbon monoxide is what your car exhales and yes, it is indeed poisonous. But he tries to spin the story to make us believe carbon DIoxide is poisonous so that they can tax anything involved with it. That essentially means a 'breathing' tax.

For for further consideration... since it is a carbon tax, is this only the beginning of another tax grab that they intend to rape and insanely burden our children and grandchildren with for eternity? God forbid they find out that without carbon, there can be no life on earth because without carbon... there is no such thing as organic life. That's what the word "organic" means, it means "carbon based" life.

Yes, you and I and your children and future grandchildren and trees and frogs and grass (both kinds) and whales and ants and mouses and kelp and corn and wheat and eggs.... you get the picture... are made up with approximately 25% carbon (depending on which method you use to make that measurement).

Where is this carbon tax going to end? I'll tell you when! It's going to end when we end the reign of these insane oligarchs in Washington, burn the Fed to the ground and arrest all it's owners, destroy the Council on Foreign Relations and jail all it's members, hunt down the entire Rothschild clan and whack their peepees real good... well, you get the picture.

My son said to me just today ,as we rode past a cowfield in our neighbourhood, something about $100/cow methane tax due to there gas passing.Next thing y'all know Al Gore and them will have us living with air quality control monitors superglued to our a$$cracks and be charging everybody a Buck-a- fart tax!Oh, by the way the cow pasture is butt-up against some hoghouses .There are two pastures divided by the path to the hog houses.while the cows are grazing in one field the other is being irrigated from the hog lagoon,aka "the piggy potty".Then they swap 'em .So the cows main diet seems to consist of hog waste.Meanwhile these cows and hogs are major part of the human diet. So who's gonna pay the make-me -wanna-puke -but-I-still-want-some bacon & a burger tax?Nobody!Because they won't be able to afford it after their post-orgasmic smoke.1I need a cigarette.Oops...Excuse me

Im sick of these Aholes taxing us to death over stupid Sht. I went to get a pack of smokes today at the 7-eleven here in Vegas...Cigarettes were almost 7 bucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wanted to throw a fit right there in the store.
Im sick of these stupid ass politicians taxing us for their problems.Just because they dont know how to manage their money, doesnt mean that we the people should be the ones that have to pay. almost 7 bucks!!!!
God I hate these people with a passion. Pretty soon its going to get so bad that we are going to start treating cigarettes like we treat crack/heroin. Gunna have to go to cigarette dealers just to get a fair price on smokes.
Then all they will do from there is claim a "war on cigarettes". Im so freakin pissed off at these stupid politicians. GRRRRRR.

Sex tax= comming to a theatre near you.
Obesity tax= RIDICULOUS!!!!
What has happened to this country? What in the hell are they trying to do to us? I think they are purposely trying to piss us off. They are doing a damn good job of it.
And these people want to be re-elected? HAH!!!!! What a joke.


[edit on 12-3-2009 by Common Good]

Just watched tv 10 minute's ago...
Even rolling paper's for tobacco and weed is going to get fed taxed april 1rst.

OCB rolling paper's will cost Us in kentucky 9.99$ for one pack of rolling paper's..

Tobacco will got up average of 1.75 a pack april first
on top of our state tax earlier this month.

This is not even funny..Over taxation is putting this mildly.

[edit on 18-3-2009 by TheAmused]

Basic microeconomics shows us how taxation always leads to a deadweight loss. Sure, taxation is a great source of government revenue, but what's more important is on whom the tax burden falls on, the producers or the consumers.

As in most cases, both parties share the burden of the tax, with each of them contributing to a part of the government revenue. However, we don't live in the textbook version of perfect competitive market. These tobacco/soda companies have huge influence over the governments through various lobbyists/bribes. That's why the tax burden is faced by the consumer.

The problem with any tax is that, this is most likely to happen. The people of the country lose out welfare in expense of the government/producers. Why are people being taxed for every little bit of consumption? If a free market really does work without glitches, it must do so in the case of the US, WITHOUT any fiscal policies. Again, greed and corruption leads to market distortion, and sadly, the welfare loss is almost always faced by the normal man.

They also need to tax alcohol products to fund their schemes. An additional $2 per 12 oz can of beer,$20 for liquor/spirits, and $50 for bottles of wine.

It's only fair to spread the burden around. I think I'll contact my representatives, and send a letter to the Chosen One.