This is what liberalism is...
Liberalism can not gain support on merit alone, so they have to trick the public and do it slowly...
So they pass a ban on smoking here, then there....then people get used to it and then they go for what their goal originally was...in this case banning smoking everywhere...
Taxes are the same way...
Liberals basically lie that they don't want to raise taxes, but in the end it is all they do...
Milwaukee property taxes will go up over 3% next year, after the Democratic governor said he supported a tax freeze...
All these stories show how people get dooped over and over....fooled once shame on me, voters fooled over and over again shame on you...
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Belmont to be first U.S. city to ban all smoking
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Oh whatever...Pubs claim to be strict on taxes, but does history and facts show us? That Pubs tax us more than Dems do.
The Whyno (can be interpreted as wino or whine-o depending on his/her most recent post; according to the above post, we’ll go with Wino this time)
You can’t just make things up and expect to be taken seriously. Visit a bookstore sometime and peruse the history books (that would be the ones in the section entitled “History”) or you could look at the ones in the political science or politics section (the book shelves under the sign entitled “politics”).
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But -- but -- it is for the common good! Don't you care? Where is your compassion for the benighted smokers?
Back to the subject. I can’t say that anyone that’s been paying attention is surprised.
I remember when, smoking bans were first debated many years ago. Many were able to foresee that the next thing they (lefties) would go after would be junk and fast food. Of course these visionaries were called extremist, idiots, anti-health and anything else the left using their typical modus operandi could think of.
I quit smoking cigarettes a couple of months back and can’t stand the smell of burning tobacco. But I wouldn’t presume to tell a business owner what legal activity he can allow in HIS place of business. I’m free to take my business or work elsewhere.
As far as smoking outside in public goes, I think it’s a matter of manners. If you’re walking down a street in a crowd, or standing in a crowded line its just bad manners to smoke.
On the other hand, if you’re sitting on the top bleacher at a ball game, or standing off to yourself near the concessions, people shouldn’t freak out and wet their panties just because they get a whiff of smoke.
Damn are we going to start legislating manners? If so, where the hell does it end?
Worse than burning cigs is the smell of stale ashtrays. I couldn't stand that when I smoked (two years five months ago). But I've always liked the smell of cigs, especially when first lit. As a wee lad, I used to sit amongst my Polish uncles as they all puffed away on big honkin' cigars. Dug that, too. But those ashtrays...man, dump that thing out once in a while! One of my customers has one of those outdoor butt receptacles where the base is filled with sand, and the neck is narrow and comes up to about five feet high. I don't think they've ever cleaned that damn thing out. The stench of stale butts hits you in the face about 15 feet away. And there's not a lot of wind! It's an underground entrance from their parking lot. It's awful.
But what slays me is the fact that all these laws are based on flawed research on second-hand smoke. If a little smoke'll kill ya, you've already got problems and wiffin a little cig smoke is the least of 'em.
Plus, where does the gov get off telling someone what he can permit in his place of business?
Smoking bans may be stupid, fraudulent, lead to
the loss of other freedoms etc, etc.
But if they're not UNCONSTITUTIONAL it's what you're gonna get. Most people don't smoke and don't care about anybody's rights but their own, so nobody has any.
Way to go,suckers!
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