Taxes trigger big drop in U.S. smoking
| Higher state taxes on smoking are producing sharp declines in tobacco consumption in the United States, just as Congress considers a huge federal cigarette tax hike, USA Today reported in its Friday editions.
The newspaper, conducting its own analysis of taxation and consumption figures, said the degree of decline in smoking appears to be tied directly to the size of the tax increase. |
We know taxing smokes isn’t about legislating morality. So taxing abortion wouldn’t be either.
We know that consistency demands that “pro-choicers” should oppose someone deciding to smoke just as much as they should oppose someone deciding to have an abortion.
And what would be done with the money generated by state and federal taxes on abortions?
Well, I take you back to the story for my answer:
| The Senate last week approved a $35 billion tobacco tax increase as a way to pay for expanded government health care for children. Meanwhile, the House of Representatives has proposed its own plan to provide health care to children through higher tobacco taxes |
Abortion taxes for the children!
Makes sense to me.