“……..fine.” Classic.

Well, I smoke a pack a day, so all you parents out there might as well thank me. THANK ME!!!!!

Enrique on October 30, 2007 at 10:53 AM

Channeling Bill Murray in Groundhog Day after catching the kid from the tree the umpteenth time, with the kid running away: “You little brat! You have never thanked me!”

Also isn’t there a chance additional cost will make some people smoke less?

What am I missing here?

12thman on October 30, 2007 at 9:10 AM

Right there. As cigarette consumption decreases, where are they going to get the money? In order to get the revenue they depend on smokers. At least for now.

Yes and if the pendulum swings the other way and people smoke more that will create more overburdening costs on the healthcare system. It a a lose-lose situation, a crazy gambit I’d said.

Smokers really should get a lot more credit for all the additional burdens we carry, but thanks to the anti-smoking crowd they have made smokers only slightly more socially acceptable than lepers.

I demand credit.

I remembering laughing hysterically when I first read that back then. It was funny because it was absurd and unbelievable. Needless to say it’s not as funny anymore because it’s no longer unbelievable.

Well, I smoke a pack a day, so all you parents out there might as well thank me. THANK ME!!!!!

Enrique on October 30, 2007 at 10:53 AM

I have NEVER had a non-smoker thank me for paying all these extra taxes. Maybe we should form a club or something… LOL!

But I don’t want to be taxed for it.

At what point will the economy collapse because a certain percentage of the population is now living off the democratic plantation?

I’ll vote for the first democrat that taxes fat people like they do smokers. They can even give licenses to illegal aliens if they make everyone weigh in and charge according to BMI.

THANK ME!!!!!

Enrique on October 30, 2007 at 10:53 AM

Who do you think you are? Mark Levin?

It’s just another way to get more people on the government dole. If everyone is relying on the Dems for their healthcare , they’ll be the party in power FOREVER!!! Healthcare quality will totally suck, but there’ll be no alternative. It’s freaking brilliant.

On Monday, House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi was in Miami trying to drum up support for S-Chip….

But one of my problems with the S- Chip program deals with the negative economics caused by collectivist, bureaucratic “pie in the sky” type of planning that ignores reality.

More and more doctors, especially obgyns, are pulling out of healthcare due to the horribly poor financial reimbursement ratio of Medicaid, as well as negative economic realities caused by lawyers, medical liability issues, etc.

The movement away from private healthcare to public sector causes more people to naturally want to drop their own coverage (which they pay for) and pick up free state insurance coverage. But there is no “free lunch” in economics, as well as in life. Medicaid and public aid may have had a noble purpose at the beginning, but the rapid explosion of the Medicaid program since then has negative financial implications.

Somebody has to pay for this. And collective, socialized planning at the bureaucratic level tends to ignore financial reality.

Again, I do not want to see people without health care.

But the road to socialism is often paved with “good intentions” that have very bad economic results.

Do you care enough to help?

Via Hot Air…