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Originally Posted by GatorB
Well let's see someone CHOOSE to smoke for 40 years despite knowing the dangers then when they are 65 they get lung cancer and guess who foots the bill for their treatment? ME the taxpayer. So you want to ge rid of "sin taxes" fine. Then if you choose activities and actions you know will lead to disease later YOU foot the bill not everyone else. I have no problem having a person who smokes contributing funds to their eventual medical care.
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I don't believe in sin taxes, because I also don't believe its the job of the government or other taxpayers to foot the bill for somone's stupidity.
By definition, a sin tax is a tax on socially undesirable behaviors. Some jurisdictions have pornography taxes, which are sin taxes. Since when is it the job of the government to use a carrot and stick method to guide people's decisions for what they do with their own money?
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Originally Posted by GatorB
As far a as drug. Druggies are adrain to society. i've seen fist hand a druggie effect have on thier children they bring into the world. No jail often does no good as I have seen first hand and jails are already crowded. Simple solution build a reservation type area out west where all those that wish to be druggies can go live and go kill themselves slowly and let the rest of society alone.
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Its not drug users which cause problems, its drug abusers. There are many people who use illegal drugs responsibly, and don't create problems.
Jailing drug users does nothing. The problem of addiction still remains.
Besides, drugs caused less problems before we had a prohibition on them.