Reply #91: you would think that, yes [View All]

[William Z. Foster]

Since you think that this thread is about smoking, no doubt in your imagination there can only be two positions - pro-smoking (which could only be because a person was a smoker) and anti-smoking.

I think that accusing people of being smokers and arguing against this regressive tax for that reason means that you have lost the argument. No wealthy people would have that complaint, would they, since it would not be a burden on them. Ergo, it is not about smoking, it is about poor people smoking. Do this many Democrats truly not understand the concept of regressive taxation, or has in fact, as I suspect, their control freak obsessive fixation on the issue of smoking caused them to suspend all critical thinking on the topic of the thread?

The thread is about regressive taxation. I take it that you think people should be punished for "making the wrong choices," and that this is the appropriate and effective way to tackle social problems.