Today I have saved over $900.00. Good thing too, with the price of smokes and the tax penalties, huh? California is trying to get a little carried away with that whole tax the smokers thing. I understand the idea behind it, and actually I'm empathetic to a point.
But those who support the proposition in California aren't about helping those who are addicted find a way to Quit. They're about giving the hospitals and medical care-givers autonomy. They're about locking in how the state can spend the funds it receives from the tax increase. They're about greed, if you ask me.
Where did it get into somebody's head that the best way to make a living is to find somebody who is prone to something, or has a weakness or something inside them that makes them vulnerable in some way, and capitalize on that until their victim is either in the poor house or dead?
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