Stimulus stupidity alert: $75 million for smoking cessation
Yup, here it is on pg. 61 of the Senate stimulus bill:
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Pssst. Someone tell the Senate Democrats who larded up the Senate stimulus bill with $75 million for smoking cessation that they need smokers to keep buying cigarettes to pay for the S-CHIP universal health care Trojan Horse! Maybe they should reallocate the $75 million to subsidize smoking continuation. After all, someone’s got to look out for the smokers the Dems need to pay all those higher cigarette taxes in order to subsidize more families whom the Dems want to shift off of private health insurance plans and onto the government-run S-CHIP program.
These people can’t keep their Big Nanny agendas straight.
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excellent – my tax money – going up in smoke…
What! We can’t afford to have people cease smoking! The Feds need the tax revenue. What are they thinking? I suspect this provision will be matched by another provision to ENCOURAGE smoking to raise revenues.
This idea is the epitomy of the Democrat party. Stupid is as stupid does.
It doesn’t require any sense to vote for a Democrat, why should it require any sense to be a Democrat?
Maybe they realize the folly of depending upon smokers to pay for SCHIP while using the stimulus to lower the number of snmokers. It’s a plot! When this scheme results in not enough money for SCHIP, they get to 1) blame the evil Republicans for their opposition, 2) declare a crisis, and 3) raise more taxes to spend more money on more pet projects.
Do away with:
White sugar
Bleached four
Bleached anything
Boxed processed foods
Soda
Eating pasta all of the time
Fast food
Substitute:
Eat more fruits and veggies
Drink lots of water
Send me my friggin check – NOW. I see 1 billion is set aside. Sounds like a check for 10 million for my “research” is a deal.
As for smoking? Take out all nicotine and people will stop smoking pronto.
I threw the smoking “research” in since my 10 million is in the mail.
How much of that does Obama himself get?
Will the RINOs in the Senate have the courage to vote no on the stimulus bill to kill the lie of this being a bi-partisan bill? The bi-partisan angle is only to give cover to Dems when they further wreck the economy. Trust me, if it worked, they’d take all the credit.
I seem to remember that all the money the government sued out of the Tobacco Companies not that long ago was supposed to go for “Smoking Cessation” programs. I think the government is just blowing smoke up the cook’s azz.
I’ve asked many a “nanny” these two questions:
1.After you force us all to quit, who do you think they will come after to replace all that tobacco tax revenue??
2.After you force us all to quit, calculate the expense of all of us smokers living an extra 20-30 years and who will pick up the tab on that expense??
The answer to both is you, the taxpayer.
Thank your local legislator nanny.
The majority of smokers in this country are in the lower income brackets.
YEA!
Lets tax the poor.
I’m still trying to figure out how a poor person is going to give me a job.
Hey I already quit! Can I get my money back for all the money I would have spent on cigs?
I betcha the morons would give it to me.
Better include another $75 million for eating cessation.
The less America smokes, the fatter it becomes.
How do you think Asian and Europeans stay so thin?
We need to dump the lot of them. All the crisis rhetoric over and over for months now and this is their answer so far?
A group of 8th graders would get more trust from me than this miserable group of pathetic bottomfeeders.
Our lovely politicians on the hill need to go back to the drawing board and by the looks of things for a long long time. The manner in which they are handling this “crisis” has to be the worst performance of our elected officials I have ever seen.
From top to bottom I have yet to see any “real” solutions to the matter at hand.
The American people would be well served if we just rode it out until they give us a solid Economic infusion of realistic objectives.
This shamulus package is a complete failure.
Anyone putting their name on this is an idiot. Enough with the gloom and doom rhetoric, get to work and for goodness sake, start from scratch.
Pork! Pork is bad. Well, it does get bills through the house so, I guess it is not all bad.
Obama: Help yourself to some pork boys. I have to stop you at .5 trillion for now. Anything more will have to be added to the next bill I bring up!
Politicans: :snort: :grunt: Obama, you’re the best – pass the salsa.
This is exactly what I was thinking. What a scam that was!
Course, they might have the money from this extortion if many of the governors actually spent it for that purpose. Many raided that money, and borrowed against future “payments” to pay for other crap.
You’d think Pelosi would see smoking as another great way to plan out a few thousand cost burdens to the goobermint.
Ditto.
The economy is 80% emotions. That is why they measure consumer confidence.
$10 billion “for the effects of secondhand smoke?”
*sticks p.61 in shredder*
Next item, please.
Stick the entire Bill in the Shredder, and don’t look back.
:hands CO2 pages 1-60:
Have at it!
How are they going to pay for SCHIP if everyone quits smoking?
Enter the “carbon usage tax”. The gooberment will do a study (paid for by you and me) on how much the average person exhales. Since carbon is a greenhouse gas (which it is not), this same study will calcualte the damage done to the environment (which it does not) by each person. Based on this study, they will FINALLY get around to taxing the air you breathe.
Mark this date down, you heard it here. This is NO joke. You will look back on this day and think:
.oO(that SOB was right)
Don’t we exhale CO2 without smoking. Just a thought.
FamilyMan,
Yep. The tax will have to be added to your income tax. It will probably be deducted from your payroll so you will not forget to pay it. Everyone who does not buy carbon credits from AlGore will be required to pay because, we all breathe.
Mark it down.
In the spirit of planet-saving, I’d like to make a helpful suggestion. Confetti serves many useful purposes—party favors, pillow stuffing, bedding, mouthwash, kindling, package filler…
Oh, wait. That last one is what the bill consists of.
mouthwash?
Not that it would do any good but you can complain via: http://www.nocigtax.com -This is NOT a smoking issue as you all know. S-CHIP is only the beginning.
Dems’ message: YOU WILL QUIT SMOKING OR ELSE.
As a former smoker myself, I know the only way to quit the habit is through individual willpower and not government intervention. I think it quite laughable that the government thinks it and it alone can stop a person’s habits.
The minute I learned that my grandmother had emphasema was the day I quit… FOR GOOD. I didn’t need Big Daddy Government’s “guiding” hand.
On January 28th, 2009 at 12:53 am, FamilyMan said:
Yeah, forget I said that. Someone out there might actually think I’m serious.
Find me one smoker who doesn’t know that smoking is bad for them, and may likely shorten their life. They need $75 million for “smoking cessation activities“? What kind of “activities”? Picnics? Arts and crafts?
On January 27th, 2009 at 11:04 pm, AlohaGuy said:
I wish someone would put a nicotine patch over his mouth.
That money will go to some politician’s friend who will set up a cheap smoking cessation program that will do no more than tell people what they already know, then he will give himself a handsome paycheck, his friends too.
I saw a guy tell a woman smoker not too long ago that smoking was bad for her health. As she drew another puff, she looked at him and said, really? I had no idea!! Oh my god, who could have known that! It was so funny, I laughed outloud. The guy smugly went hmph, I chalked it up to another liberal who is out to save everyone from themselves. This country is going insane.
Oh, I forgot to mention, the handsome paycheck and kick back some of that money to his favorite politician.
If contraception is supposed to help states deal with their budgets by reducing population-driven demands on resources, why isn’t the Pelosi Congress trying to stop illegal immigration?
Votes socky votes…
Has anyone here seen “Charlie and the Chocolate Factor” (the recent one with Johnny Depp)? Remember how, when the group first arrives at the Wonka factory, the robotic chorus that greets them malfunctions and bursts into flames?
Why do I see that image in my head whenever the Democrats try to do anything? They’re so dysfunctional, it’s amazing they don’t spontaneously combust…
Just as with gas taxes, when people use a product less, the tax revenues from that product also go down…which affects budgets and program spending.
Do they not know basic math? I was an English major for a reason, but even I know that if you sell 10 of X item at $5, but only 2 of X item at $10, you’re going to have less.
No pork in government ! It’s insensitive to Muslims !
The ultimate Ponzi Game– Tax and Spend
Does CAIR get offended if they are subsidized by gov’t pork ?
Michigan spent it’s tobacco money on college scholarships on the theory that; college grads smoke less, making it an anti-smoking initiative.
As Mel Brooks said in History of the world Part 2…”@!%& the poor”
It is important also to note that the $75 Million is the minimum number….
“The committee has included not less than $75,000,000 for smoking cessation activities.”
Why should they “CAIR”. The end justifies the means. SOOUUUUUUEEEEEEE!!!!! SNORT, GRUNT.
but what about the kids
As a business consultant, I can honestly say that anytime you see the words “best practices development” you can kiss your money goodbye.
*smooch* Adios!
Wanted: 24,000,000 more smokers to fund this program.