Thursday, December 16, 2010

Do you support a Constitutional tax on tobacco products to fund child health care (Measure 50)

Do you support a Constitutional tax on tobacco products to fund child health care (Measure 50)?

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1 :
well i pay 6 dollers a pack right now..of that 6 dollers the company that made it gets .25 cents, the rest goes to taxes i think they are taxing cigarettes enough
2 :
No it is flat out wrong.
3 :
Sure, and I'm a smoker....at least we would be helping children while killing ourselves..
4 :
if they can give kids (and everyone else) second-hand smoke, then they can never give enough money for healthcare.
5 :
sounds good in theory. The problem is that legislation keeps getting stricter. Pretty soon there wont be anywhere to smoke. This will reduce available funds, leaving an underfunded program that will be forced to pull funds from other programs.
6 :
The percentage of people who smoke is down to less than 20% and continues to decline. You can't have it both ways. Don't tell people to quit and then plan to finance things from them not quitting!
7 :
let the alcoholics pay some more taxes. I can smoke and drive down the road and not kill a family. Can a drunk say that.
8 :
It depends on the amount of tax...
9 :
No, I am tired of every health problem in this country being blamed on smoking. They want to blame asthma in children on smoking, ignoring the fact that as the smoking rates have gone down, the kids that are getting asthma have increased. How about starting to tax other "unhealthy" activities at the same rate that they currently tax tobacco? How about that $9.00 big mac meal? Or that $12.00 6-pack of cheap beer. How about taxing the amount of time spent watching T.V? I hope you are seeing where I am heading with this. Tobacco is just an easy target-- This is a measure that was written to sound good-- who is not for better health care? The only reason bush vetoed it, was because it included kids that were not already covered by most states! What about the rest of the people, who cannot afford health care? Everyone seems to think that if you have health insurance you are ok, but many people who have insurance still cannot afford to get the medical care that they need. When 1 test can cost over $5000, then the insurance company decides it is not going to pay for it, because the doctor did not get pre-approval there is a problem. When a child can get health care, but their parents can't, there is a problem. I know some are going to say-- go to college, get a better paying job and you won't have these problems, but please tell me how much your degree is going to be worth when 50,000 people have one just like it instead of 5,000?

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