Re: GLP's post on SCHIP

On Mar 31, 5:57 pm, Matteo in Italy <matteo.nap...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Bruce Watson wrote:
In article <rmpAl.23034$v8.14...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
DTA <dtboom...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What crap!  I think that if the government wants money to pay for child
health care (children up to 30), they should tax the entire population
equally, so we all share in the burden.  I don't think that the 75% of
non-smokers should force the 25% of smokers (many of these are your poor
families) to shoulder the burden.

In the US, smokers are 20.8% of the population.

And decreasing.

And we've had this discussion before - what will they tax when tobacco
goes away?  Fast food?  Alcohol?  Sugar?

Matteo - they already DO tax alcohol - in FY 1992 Federal alcohol
taxes generated $7.9 Billion in Revenue

http://tobaccodocuments.org/lor/87679971-9972.html
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