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Re: Smoking while driving with kids under 6 may get a warning in Conn.
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jgar the jorrible
Feb 22, 2013, 4:19:58 PM2/22/13
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On Feb 21, 12:12 pm, Larry Sheldon <lfshel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/21/2013 2:02 PM, richard wrote:
>
> >> It is unlikely the govt will put on such restrictions on smoking since
> >> it rakes in far too much money from taxes on cigarettes.
>
> Actually, the reality is that governments have been draconian about it.
>
> If the do guns they way they did tobacco, were are in very deep trouble.
>
> Governments don't pay much attention to the effects of policies on tax
> revenue. The institute polices that their electorate like and institute
> taxes on people who can't do anything about it.
They pay plenty of attention. It's just the wrong kind of attention.
For just one example, government economists project what will happen
to tax revenues if the homeowners deduction is eliminated. Originally
(during the fiscal cliff discussions last year) it was $100B. Now
it's 30% less. But politicians still use the original figure. You
are right about instituting what the electorate likes, though perhaps
with some funny definitions of electorate.
Frankly, I get pretty pissed when my car fills up with smoke from the
asshole in front of me. I want to go back to the high school hijinks
of stealing fire extinguishers to nail random assholes (two of us had
cars with spotlights, best was pulling over others with stolen fire
extinguishers).
jg
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@home.com is bogus.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/feb/21/hundreds-of-illegal-licenses-granted-in-dmv-scam/
> On 2/21/2013 2:02 PM, richard wrote:
>
> >> It is unlikely the govt will put on such restrictions on smoking since
> >> it rakes in far too much money from taxes on cigarettes.
>
> Actually, the reality is that governments have been draconian about it.
>
> If the do guns they way they did tobacco, were are in very deep trouble.
>
> Governments don't pay much attention to the effects of policies on tax
> revenue. The institute polices that their electorate like and institute
> taxes on people who can't do anything about it.
They pay plenty of attention. It's just the wrong kind of attention.
For just one example, government economists project what will happen
to tax revenues if the homeowners deduction is eliminated. Originally
(during the fiscal cliff discussions last year) it was $100B. Now
it's 30% less. But politicians still use the original figure. You
are right about instituting what the electorate likes, though perhaps
with some funny definitions of electorate.
Frankly, I get pretty pissed when my car fills up with smoke from the
asshole in front of me. I want to go back to the high school hijinks
of stealing fire extinguishers to nail random assholes (two of us had
cars with spotlights, best was pulling over others with stolen fire
extinguishers).
jg
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@home.com is bogus.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/feb/21/hundreds-of-illegal-licenses-granted-in-dmv-scam/
Larry Sheldon
Feb 22, 2013, 4:47:41 PM2/22/13
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addressing (with more typo's than I like to get caught with) the issues
of what pol's pay attention to.
I do not suborn or applaud crime in any guise.
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Idioten aangeboden. Gratis af te halen.
h/t Dagelijkse Standaard
James W. Anderson
Feb 22, 2013, 5:44:50 PM2/22/13
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and there are kids under 16 in the car, the driver or other adults who
are smoking can be cited if it passes or already passed.
Jim Cash
Mar 2, 2013, 8:50:38 AM3/2/13
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James W. Anderson wrote:
> Similar laws are under consideration in Utah. If they see a smoke out
> and there are kids under 16 in the car, the driver or other adults who
> are smoking can be cited if it passes or already passed.
It's a free world so why can't we smoke in cars?
> Similar laws are under consideration in Utah. If they see a smoke out
> and there are kids under 16 in the car, the driver or other adults who
> are smoking can be cited if it passes or already passed.
Larry Sheldon
Mar 2, 2013, 2:02:36 PM3/2/13
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jgar the jorrible
Mar 4, 2013, 12:32:41 PM3/4/13
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exception for people who want to smoke with their heads enclosed in
airtight plastic bags.
http://www.sandiego6.com/news/local/Elderly-Pedestrian-Killed-by-Hit-and-Run-Driver-194529211.html
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