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2023-04-23 -Great Cultural Revolution

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul 'test-marketing' a ban on all tobacco sales

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Posted by Fred 2023-04-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Weed will be everywhere. No negatives offered. Just constant harangue on Tobacco. Next she will require people to only walk on their left foot.

Posted by Dale 2023-04-23 05:45|| 2023-04-23 05:45|| Front Page Top

#2 ....Okay.

Two cheers for Her Honor. Let me explain.

I've said for years that public policy - allowing continued tobacco sales while demonizing and increasingly taxing it - is about as hypocritical as one can get. If it was truly as great a threat to public health as we are repeatedly told, then the only possible and reasonable action is to ban it.

Her Honor may be a fascistic, domineering, lunatic scold with delusions of Godhood...but she's at least following the only logical path to solve the issue.

Please pass the popcorn.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2023-04-23 06:30|| 2023-04-23 06:30|| Front Page Top

#3 How much of 1914-1940 history will the present day Government repeat?

Leave a war,
Boon economy,
Pandemic, Pandemic ends,
Stock market crashing
Bank deposit runs, and closures,
Massive Inflation,
Large numbers of homeless, and unemployed,
Ban a commonly consumed item (alcohol),
Create a Black Market , and crime syndicates for the item,
Create Government socialist services.
Create a "Temporary" Federal Tax on items/income.
etc.. etc.. etc...

Posted by NN2N1 2023-04-23 07:23|| 2023-04-23 07:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Can't get enough drugs off the street now. They already have problems with tobacco smuggling now with the high taxes. Just another racket to be run by the usual suspects.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-04-23 07:24|| 2023-04-23 07:24|| Front Page Top

#5 "Can't breathe"...bit of a double entendre there or something like that.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-04-23 07:27|| 2023-04-23 07:27|| Front Page Top

#6 NY State gets over $1 Billion/yr from Tobacco taxes.

about $4/pack and about $4/ 20 cigars

Posted by lord garth 2023-04-23 10:08|| 2023-04-23 10:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Someone should "test market" stuffing this broad into a "Whack-a-Mole" machine.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2023-04-23 15:02|| 2023-04-23 15:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Paging Rudy Giuliani.

Posted by KBK 2023-04-23 23:57|| 2023-04-23 23:57|| Front Page Top

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