Reply #220: Don't piss on my shoes and tell me it's raining [View All]

[MajorChode]

Your arguments are EXACTLY the same ones used by Republicans and those who favored corporate interests over public interests. If you want to pretend the reverse is true, more power to you. I'll simply point out the factual historical record and show how comically full of shit you are. Or better yet, I'll let Ted Kennedy do it for me...

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Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota, a leading anti-smoking lawmaker, asked hundreds of youths at the rally: "Do you want to be targeted by the tobacco industry for addiction?"
"No!" the young people roared.
The cry inside the Senate was nearly as loud at times. Conservative senators led by Republican John Ashcroft of Missouri spent four hours trying to stem the bill's momentum.
"This is a massive tax increase, this is a massive expansion of government, this is an affront to the effort of families to provide for themselves," Ashcroft said.
But a group of mainly Democratic senators tried in vain to set an even higher tax than McCain's levy of $1.10 a pack, already 4 1/2 times the current federal excise tax of 24 cents.
Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts noted that those opposing the higher tax increase -- on the grounds that relatively poor people pay most cigarette taxes -- were the same senators who resisted his successful effort last year to increase the minimum wage.
"How elitist and arrogant it is for those voices on the other side to cry these crocodile tears about working families!" Kennedy thundered.
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http://www.forces.org/articles/files/rally2.htm

Game, set, match.

Have a nice day.