Reply #89: You wont win me over with this logic [View All]

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Like I said: cigarette taxes? I have a right to smoke; it's inherent in my right of liberty. I'm being charged an exhorbitant fee by the govt. for exercising that right; I am required to buy my tobacco through the govt.-regulated system, and I must pay enormous taxes when I do. Poor people are without question discriminated against by the adverse impact of those taxes. We see paying that fee as their choice -- even though meeting the need created by nicotine addiction is truly much less a "choice" than is buying a firearm. I see paying the fee for permission to acquire a firearm much the same way.

I am strongly opposed to sin tax, or sin fees, on anything. It all reminds me of the tea tax we learned about in history class. I see how youre saying its a choice, but even so, should it be taxed so high that only the wealthy can buy it? Whether its firearms, cigarettes, candy, or beer?

A gas tax makes sense since we all need road repaired to drive on. A cigarette tax they say is to cover the health insurance costs but i try to look past the political bullshit in that. If the government controled spending a whole lot better than it does now there wouldnt be a need for a sin tax. But this is a whole different debate in a whole different area.