Cig Tax
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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Considering the U.S. is estimated at losing 40,000 to 70,000 jobs a month, it's a wonder workers aren't sniffing anything they could get their claws on. Or smuggling white lightning into the workplace.
In California, the control freaks started this crap a few years ago. You walk into the neighborhood bar and find the bar full of drinks, but no one's there. You go out back and 10 or more poor souls are huddled to keep warm having a cigarette. Yes, Governor, it can get pretty frosty even in southern California.
It's going to be a wilder sight here when no-smoking laws go into effect in any public place. I can see tax slaves all along restaurant and bar row shivering in 10-below weather just to experience one of the few freedoms working people still enjoy.
The king of England tried this no smoking thing 400 years ago by raising taxes extremely high. The kingdom nearly went broke. Remember the Volstead Act? People didn't stop drinking.
When I was a boy, my dad used to point out all the old locations of illegal gin mills that used to be in Warsaw during that "no drinking" time. There were many times the speakeasys outnumbered the number of bars now. I won't go into the number of cathouses Warsaw had in the day.
Hypocrites - you betchum, red rider. I had a friend that used to drive a taxi back in the day. He used to comment on the boxes of empty booze bottles he used to spot at Winona Lake behind some of the homes of the most righteous among us.
The governor says the money goes to health care for the downtrodden. A big share of that alleged downtrodden today are recent illegal visitors from south of the border.
Tom Metzger
Warsaw, via e-mail[[In-content Ad]]
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Considering the U.S. is estimated at losing 40,000 to 70,000 jobs a month, it's a wonder workers aren't sniffing anything they could get their claws on. Or smuggling white lightning into the workplace.
In California, the control freaks started this crap a few years ago. You walk into the neighborhood bar and find the bar full of drinks, but no one's there. You go out back and 10 or more poor souls are huddled to keep warm having a cigarette. Yes, Governor, it can get pretty frosty even in southern California.
It's going to be a wilder sight here when no-smoking laws go into effect in any public place. I can see tax slaves all along restaurant and bar row shivering in 10-below weather just to experience one of the few freedoms working people still enjoy.
The king of England tried this no smoking thing 400 years ago by raising taxes extremely high. The kingdom nearly went broke. Remember the Volstead Act? People didn't stop drinking.
When I was a boy, my dad used to point out all the old locations of illegal gin mills that used to be in Warsaw during that "no drinking" time. There were many times the speakeasys outnumbered the number of bars now. I won't go into the number of cathouses Warsaw had in the day.
Hypocrites - you betchum, red rider. I had a friend that used to drive a taxi back in the day. He used to comment on the boxes of empty booze bottles he used to spot at Winona Lake behind some of the homes of the most righteous among us.
The governor says the money goes to health care for the downtrodden. A big share of that alleged downtrodden today are recent illegal visitors from south of the border.
Tom Metzger
Warsaw, via e-mail[[In-content Ad]]
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