Originally Posted by Robbie

More sin tax? That's a tax on the poor by the way. A pack of smokes cost 55 cents when I was graduating high school.
Looked at a vending machine at a casino last night: $8.50 a pack!

And beer and liquor are already taxed to the moon as well.
All of those are taxes that mostly affect the poor. They can't afford to go to a nightclub so they tend to buy a bottle of liquor or a six pack. But they are getting taxed just to enjoy themselves on the weekend. It's bullshit.

And taxing fast food?
Poor people can't afford to go out and eat steak dinners. So if a guy without much money wants to give his family a treat once a week...he takes 'em to McDonalds. As a kid that was like Christmas when we got to go to McDonalds.
Rich people don't really eat a lot of fast food. But for poor folks it's all they can afford.

What will be left for these people?
Boring lives full of monotony and they can't even have a smoke, a beer, or freakin' 1/4 pounder every once in a while?

You should think about those things before you keep saying we should give corrupt politicians even MORE money to spend on wars that kill people all over the world.

I just don't understand the thinking that goes behind the desire to take people's money from them and give it to a bunch of crooks in Washington D.C.

If you want to tax the rich to feed your desire to redistribute wealth...then tax expensive cars, jewelry, yachts, etc.
Take the "sin" taxes off of liquor, smokes, and stop taxing food. Those are all taxes on the poorest people in society.