So Obama has expanded the SCHIP program, which seems like a pretty stupid idea right now. We’re in an economic crisis and it’s time for making cuts, and frankly healthy poor kids doesn’t help anyone right now. Obama assures us, though, that it will all be easily funded as long as lots of people keep smoking and paying the new higher tax. In fact, they’re going to change the warnings on cigarettes to things like:
SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING: Smoking may cause cancer and lung disease, but it also funds health care for poor kids so it all evens out in the end. Smoke ’em if you got ’em!
Also, packs of cigarettes will now all have a picture of a smiling Obama smoking a cigarette on the front.
You know, if we could just get unhealthy poor kids to smoke cigarettes, then they could pay for there own health care.
I love it. This kind of straight thinking and clear logic is what keeps me coming back!
But its not just for poor kid and illegals anymore. Now its for adults taht earn less than 80K a year. So lets repeal all of those no smoking ordinances and encourage everyone to smoke, because their messiah said so, and it will help the “children”
S-CHIP is sold as the solution to the healthcare ills of all povert children. But will they really mandate the implantation of Silicon Chip GPS modules into all children in the plan and then say, “Well we called it the SCHIP bill so you couldn’t miss it?”
You misspelled “their”.
How about if we made everyone smoke and then raised the taxes on cigarettes, could we then stimulate the economy that way? I’m thinkin’ a couple a packs a day are mandatory! Think of the boom in the health care industry! Cancer stocks will sky rocket! I get this!
Sin taxes to pay for healthcare are nothing new – I remember Mark Russell saying one slogan should be, “Have a drink for gramma!”
Maybe we should have an abortion tax to help pay for social security, since there are fewer children to pay into the system. We could also have a lawncare and construction tax to pay for healthcare for illegals and a Women’s Studies/Feminist Literature tax to pay for college graduates who can’t find jobs. How about a lawyer tax to pay for malpractice insurance?
#5 Kent, how about a lawyers tax to pay for the lawyers taht evade taxes? We could call it the hussein cabinet tax.
We can’t have an abortion tax you ninnies! That would discourage abortion! We should have a tax on babies! Tax the sh!t out of those evil women that didn’t get an abortion! That is more in keeping with this administration!
Cigarettes are bad! I would never smoke a cigarette.
I was smoking a joint in that picture…dipped in heroin with a light dusting of cocaine.
How about a tax on you have a job! If you haven’t lost your job yet you get nailed! Somewhere around $2,000 each…per month… That should stimulate the economy! Send the cash to Washington! That always get’s things moving! It can be called They Are Still Working Tax And Don’t Feel Our Pain!
You’re smokin’ something, ussjimmycarter. “The One.”
Tax stupidity – the DNC and all it’s members will be bankrupt in no time
A hetero tax to pay for special wrights for . . . .
HOMOPARTISANS!!
Man, If I hat to stare at HObama every time I wanted a refreshing burst of Nicotine… well… well… I’d just buy a Cigarette Holder and set every single emptied box on fire whilst giggling maniacally and wringing my hands… all while enjoying a nice, smooth Camel Light Wide.
Is that how you manage to keep that girlish figure, #9?
I’d love to see a reporter from CNN (yeah right) ask the president: “Sir, raising the cigarette tax will either drive people off smoking and your S-Chip initiative will quickly lose its funding, but if it doesn’t drive people off smoking you’ll be taking advantage of citizens’ addictions, so which is it you are hoping for?
As for what we need healthy poor kids for…. well, if things get bad enough, we could eat them.
I’m waiting for the wiseguy to come around in his black Caddy or Town Car with a trunk full of Winston cartons for $15 each. I’ll buy bootleg cigarettes and consider myself a patriot.
Speaking of Lincolns, what happened to Paul Castellano’s ’85 Town Car?
Just put a Sheperd Fairey Obama poster on every pack of smokes.
Make enough different ones that they are collectable,
and issue new ones each month, Obama can be the 21st century Joe Camel, or Honus Wagner
and S-CHIP will have enough money to implant a dozen embryos in every 30 and under enrollee who wants to keep the welfare checks rolling in.
“Girlish figure”? Have you not seen my magnificent pecs? I don’t skip meetings with our civilian-bombing, baby-killing military just to have people not admire the results of my workouts! You just moved up the list for re-education!