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SCHIP: Care Enough to Smoke?

Written by Sam on November 1st, 2007

RedState had this up the other day. Very creative and very accurate at pointing out the absurdity of this bill with a little humor:

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6 Comments so far ↓

  1. Nov
    2
    5:35
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    David Shiffman

    This is a delightful ad- very clever.

    However, if you’ve got to pay for something somehow, I’d personally rather have a tax not affect me and affect people who do something I dislike…

  2. Nov
    2
    6:39
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    Sam

    Of course you would rather have the tax affect someone else. The Left is always very generous with their Socialism as long as they aren’t the ones paying for it.

  3. Nov
    2
    7:24
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    David Shiffman

    No argument here. I think this health care proposal will be a lot less popular when people realize that “government run” does not mean “free”… if they realize it. It’s quite alarming how many of my friends in the Left do not.

  4. Nov
    2
    9:57
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    Press 7 for Celtic

    I’m glad at least one Democrat out there realizes that “government run” does not equal “free”. You’re well on your way to becoming a conservative, David. Pretty soon we may have to tell you the secret handshake.

    I want to point out something that was said earlier about cigarette taxes “not affecting me”. Now, economics isn’t my strong suit, but I do understand the basic concept of “I need more $, therefore I’ll raise my prices”.

    For instance:
    I go to a barber. My barber charges $10 per haircut. My barber smokes. Cigarette taxes go up (again). My barber keeps smoking. How much does my haircut cost now?

    There is rarely ever a tax, even a targeted tax, that doesn’t somehow adversely effect the whole population. That’s why I cringe whenever some smarmy liberal politician confidently assures me that I won’t feel the burn from their new targeted tax plans.

  5. Nov
    3
    7:59
    AM
    David Shiffman

    Celtic,

    That barber example is quite interesting, and one I haven’t heard before. Good points all around.

    I just have one issue with this whole situation. I agree that the taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for everything that certain adults can’t afford for themselves, such as health care. However, these adults have children, and it is not these children’s fault that their parents don’t have good jobs or the money to buy them doctors. Health care is often not an issue of improving quality of life, but having life at all. Why should children have to get sick and die from curable or treatable diseases when we can stop it?

  6. Nov
    3
    3:02
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    jim

    celtic, generally a barber will charge the price where he can ahchieve maximum profit, or where the elascity is one. meaning for every dollar he raises a dollar he raises the price of his hair cut, he looses a buck in lost costumers. sin taxes (taxes on alcholol and cigarrette smoking) do make some sense in that two activities do lead to costs for goverment through healthcare cost for smoking and judicial as well as healthcare costs for alcholol, but shouldn’t be used to cover non related things such as the S-chip. unlike others at savethegop i will say there is a problem in health care, in that in several public health indicators we do much worse then our european and japanese brothern.

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