Californians, Stop Smoking, Or Leave

Posted on April 20, 2012 1:30 pm
by Bill Quick - Daily Pundit

Media Misleads on California Prop 29 | Wizbang

Though a nice play on people’s emotions he presents a false choice, for sure. Opposition to Prop 29 is not a choice between saving lives and enriching cigarette companies. It is a choice between giving unaccountable government lackeys nearly a billion dollars of California’s tax money to waste on more government boondoggles and not having such new government waste instituted.

If passed, Proposition 29 will authorize the California Cancer Research Act to impose a further tax on cigarettes in The Golden State. This new tax money is supposed to go to new research to find a cure for cancer.

Sounds great, doesn’t it? Who could be against cancer research, eh? But would that this were its chief benefit.

I wish every smoker in California would quit, or leave the state. Not because I oppose smoking – I don’t – but because it would be fun to watch all the government agencies and programs funded by cigarette taxes shrieking for help as their funding sources vanished.