One Man's Thoughts

"There's no single voluntary act that causes more damage, more destruction, and more health care costs than smoking. If we raise the cigarette tax by 75 cents and raise the tax on cigars, we can generate over $150 million each year in revenue.

We can use that money to pay the debt service on a capital bill. We can also use a portion of that money to provide more health care to people who need it in the form of KidCare and FamilyCare. Raising the cigarette tax will help provide more health care to people who need it."

-- So let me get this right, since smoking causes all sorts of costs to society as a whole we are going to raise taxes on smoking (ok, so far somewhat logical) But not to cover the costs to society of smoking but to build roads (so much for logic).

Didn't we have a road fund for stuff like this, oh yeah we did but we raided it to fix the budget hole last year.

Of course we are not just going to use the revenue from this to cover projects year to year, no we want to bond...

Sorry this is wacked.

OneMan

So

// posted by OneMan 10:52 AM