RE: Australia gets Carbon Tax :(
November 11, 2011 at 11:52 am
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2011 at 11:56 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Government policies on smoking are generally a joke.
We've been calling smokes "coffin nails" for hundreds of years, I'm not sure that warning labels are really what we need. Similarly policies that attempt to tax the shit out of smokers don't seem to have much of an effect either. I always find the explanations given as to where all the tax money goes (fund this or that program for the children) hilariously fucked up as well. If the tax was successful at curbing smoking then where would that wonderful funding come from? Sin taxes, leveraged against addicts because the people who propose them know damn fucking well that the smoker will continue to pay whatever price for his smokes as long as it's even remotely reasonable. Why not raise the price to $130 a pack through taxes? That would work. But then no one would buy them (the "less than rich" being the largest demographic for smokers), and the gov couldn't horn in on the profits.
Horseshit.
We've been calling smokes "coffin nails" for hundreds of years, I'm not sure that warning labels are really what we need. Similarly policies that attempt to tax the shit out of smokers don't seem to have much of an effect either. I always find the explanations given as to where all the tax money goes (fund this or that program for the children) hilariously fucked up as well. If the tax was successful at curbing smoking then where would that wonderful funding come from? Sin taxes, leveraged against addicts because the people who propose them know damn fucking well that the smoker will continue to pay whatever price for his smokes as long as it's even remotely reasonable. Why not raise the price to $130 a pack through taxes? That would work. But then no one would buy them (the "less than rich" being the largest demographic for smokers), and the gov couldn't horn in on the profits.
Horseshit.
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