It seems that Barack Hussein Obama has seen fit to reward his base with one of his first tax increases. Seems fit, break your promises to those that have the least ability to publicly complain. Would he have done this if these people had DSL service and were active bloggers? More than likely yes, looking at what he has already done to the rest of us. The only bright spot here is he is indiscriminately going to fuck all of us.
A 2008 Gallup pool found that 34% of respondents earning between $6,000 and $12,000 a year were smokers. And the smoking rate consistently declined among people of higher income. Only 13% of people earning $90,000 or more were smokers. I used to be poor and I used to smoke. I well remember the days when I smoked a cigarette instead of eating a meal because it was cheaper than food.
He says the extra money is going to fund a major expansion of children’s health care. Keep in mind that these higher taxes will encourage more people to quit smoking reducing this funding. While this may be better for the health of these people, rest assured that these programs will become part of the “Baseline Budgeting” process and will never expire, unlike the current people funding them.
These low-income citizens will bear a disproportionate burden of this tax. This tells me that he intends to balance his budget on the backs of the poor, a condition he seems content to inflict on us all in due course.
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