We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/heh_7.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:20:26 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification It was Michael Kinsley who said that a gaffe is when a politician inadvertently speaks the truth. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/heh_7.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/heh_7.html Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:39:20 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/heh_7.html#comment-86953 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/heh_7.html#comment-86953 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:12:29 -0600 You can live without candy, but you can't live without bullets." -- Kim Jong-Il
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As for taxing soda and candy...I heard of that.  They can take away all my rights and my property, but I swear that every last one of them standing between me and my sugar will not live to tell the tale.
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After NJ hiked its syntax on terbaccy a few years ago, NJSP set up roadblocks checkpoints on the bridges between Trenton and Morrisville, PA. State employes merely traveled the extra five miles upriver to the Scudders Falls bridge, but the additional travel time extended each one's rather nebulous "lunch hour" by an additional 30-45 minutes, and the staties were told to knock it off so that employees could return to the business of meddling with normal citizens in a timely fashion.
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1- You create a massive new bureaucracy that needs gobs of new tax dollars.  i.e. SCHIP.  Where 25- year-old "children" receive nationalized medical services.  Who's gonna fight giving medical care to "children"?

2-You target sinful "evil" saps to pay for it.  i.e. Rise tobbacco taxes sky-high.

3-People either stop smoking, or get their smokes from underground sources (Indian Reservations), because they can't afford their habit through legal means.

4-Tax revenue from tobbacco plummets. At which time the government either raise tobbacco taxes even higher, and/or taxes other groups in the general economy to feed their newly created bureaucratic piggy.
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Too bad, so sad they bankrupted an entire industry as well as endangered thousands of mom n' pop blue collar shops.....  Oh well, it was 'for the children'.

Rapture!

First they came for the tobacconists......
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