XPost: alt.smokers, or.politics   
   From: hoff@cem.ent   
      
   N wrote:   
   > On Jun 29, 3:16 pm, "Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen"    
   > wrote:   
   >> The kindly Rev. overheard "sshay"  saying on Fri   
   >> 29 Jun 2007 12:44:11p:   
   >>   
   >>>> so the govt is looking for their cut? Kinda like the Mafia?   
   >> No, like a government. You don't get to say how much of your profits   
   >> you have to turn over to the local mafiosi. In fact, if you're a   
   >> cagaret retailer, you don't get to say how much you have to pay for   
   >> your cases of weeds or your store rent or your utilities. The only   
   >> thing you *do* get a say in is the taxes you pay.   
   >>   
   >>> They make the Mafia look like alter boys. This is nothing more   
   >>> than a money making issue as far as the Government is concerned.   
   >> Of course the government wants money. It provides services, and those   
   >> services ought to be paid for. If they pile on the sin taxes, it's   
   >> because we the people want them to.   
   >>   
   >>> I thought they really cared about our health.:)   
   >> Oh don't be silly. They don't care any more about the public's health   
   >> than Wal-Mart or the corporation you work for does. Errr, wait a   
   >> minute. When you compare the government to those corporations, maybe   
   >> the government does care more.   
   >> --   
   >> Rev. Bob "Bob" Crispen   
   >> revbob at crispen dot org   
   >> Ex Cathedra weblog:http://blog.crispen.org/   
   >>   
   >> Justice works when the arbiter isn't driven by the impulses that   
   >> drive the crime. Society is able to stand in judgement of a criminal   
   >> when society doesn't do what the criminal does. - after Jesse Taylor   
   >   
   > Very well said your Eminence. And nice blog.   
   >   
     His blog is a piece of crap.   
      
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