Hahaha, brilliantly funny and true.

Man, fish into kids? I need to be reading the letters to the editor instead of the comics next time I pick up a paper.

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Thanks!

Is the tax on cigarettes in your opinion one of the good or bad things about this area? It has already been proven that the money the states stole from the cigarette companies did not go to fund anti-smoking campaigns. The tax on cigarettes does not go directly to cigarette related health-care issues. If you want some numbers on how the billions of dollars in settlement money goes to building golf courses and other such nonsense I will sure post them for you. It's a disgrace. Smoking is stupid. I know. I smoke, but to continually increase the price of cigarettes on a false premise is wrong. Obesity leads to a huge health care cost yet I do not see special sin taxes on sugar, cokes, cakes and nobody but the nuttiest even promoting such an idea. High pricing will not end smoking. It hasn't ended anything else. It just drains some poor guys wallet while some do-gooder takes credit for building a bike trail.

I'm not necessarily for or against "sin" taxes. I just thought her argument was particulary stupid. In this state we need sensible tax reform and quit using these stupid band-aid small taxes on specific items.