SS MAYFLOAT
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- May 17, 2001
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I would like to know something. I'm not schmart like a therapist. I try to use common sense vs an educated guess.
Lets start with addictions. Doesn't matter what type of addition it is. All of them tends to consume logical thinking. A herion addict will lose everything just to get his fix. A pill popper will give up his normal thinking and lose those around them that matter most. A crack head will do anything to support his need for a high. A tobacco user will think of nothing but to get his nicotine craving filled. An alcoholic will put others at risk while driving. A food junkie will eat until they can't get out of bed. A meth user just doesn't care about nothing but his/her meth or what it does to their bodies. Addiction is powerful and will consume the brain with its power.
Now here is my point on how addiction is one of the roots of foreclosures across the country. Does it make sense that people will spend their money on their addictions before spending it on their commitments to their financial obligations? Now enter the constant tax increases on tobacco. I'm curious to know if these increases also equate to the number of foreclosures increasing? Thus filling thier addictions before anything else no matter what the consequence is. After all, smoking is a very expensive habit. One pack a day for a year will cost a smoker about $1,825 a year @ 5$ a pack. In most cases where husband and wife both smoke 2 pack a day @ $5 a pack is $7300 a year.
It seems to me that lower income citizens tend to be the bracket of smokers. They don't have the money to go do things for entertainment because a large portion of their income goes to tobacco products and its taxes. With the decrease in smokers causing the revenue of taxes to drop and forcing higher taxes to stablilze the revenue lost just makes a big cycle. Eventually a boot leg market will become a bigger crime than it already is requiring money for enforcement. With this, even more revenue will be lost in tax income. Meanwhile people will commit to their addictions before making their financial obligations. The cycle continues.
There has to be another means of revenue for our government. I think an entertainment tax would work. If you can afford to go to any ballgame, race, or anything that requires a ticket, ,,,,you can afford the tax. This way the poor will not be taxed for their looked down upon addictions.
To cure the problem of social security is easy. Quit forcing people to quit what they are doing that shortens their life. If they die before they can get their benefits, that is money paid in that wasn't paid out for them. If we let people eat and smoke what they want letting them enjoy their pursuit of happiness, so be it! They die early after working and paying taxes, it is good for the system. Right now the attitude is keep everyone living as long as possible. I'm sorry, I don't want to be 80, confined to a bed with a crappy quality of life being forced to suffer til the day I die.
I'm sure some is going to think my thoughts are garbage, but it is my opinion.
We need new ideas, not the same beating of an old horse in different ways.
Lets start with addictions. Doesn't matter what type of addition it is. All of them tends to consume logical thinking. A herion addict will lose everything just to get his fix. A pill popper will give up his normal thinking and lose those around them that matter most. A crack head will do anything to support his need for a high. A tobacco user will think of nothing but to get his nicotine craving filled. An alcoholic will put others at risk while driving. A food junkie will eat until they can't get out of bed. A meth user just doesn't care about nothing but his/her meth or what it does to their bodies. Addiction is powerful and will consume the brain with its power.
Now here is my point on how addiction is one of the roots of foreclosures across the country. Does it make sense that people will spend their money on their addictions before spending it on their commitments to their financial obligations? Now enter the constant tax increases on tobacco. I'm curious to know if these increases also equate to the number of foreclosures increasing? Thus filling thier addictions before anything else no matter what the consequence is. After all, smoking is a very expensive habit. One pack a day for a year will cost a smoker about $1,825 a year @ 5$ a pack. In most cases where husband and wife both smoke 2 pack a day @ $5 a pack is $7300 a year.
It seems to me that lower income citizens tend to be the bracket of smokers. They don't have the money to go do things for entertainment because a large portion of their income goes to tobacco products and its taxes. With the decrease in smokers causing the revenue of taxes to drop and forcing higher taxes to stablilze the revenue lost just makes a big cycle. Eventually a boot leg market will become a bigger crime than it already is requiring money for enforcement. With this, even more revenue will be lost in tax income. Meanwhile people will commit to their addictions before making their financial obligations. The cycle continues.
There has to be another means of revenue for our government. I think an entertainment tax would work. If you can afford to go to any ballgame, race, or anything that requires a ticket, ,,,,you can afford the tax. This way the poor will not be taxed for their looked down upon addictions.
To cure the problem of social security is easy. Quit forcing people to quit what they are doing that shortens their life. If they die before they can get their benefits, that is money paid in that wasn't paid out for them. If we let people eat and smoke what they want letting them enjoy their pursuit of happiness, so be it! They die early after working and paying taxes, it is good for the system. Right now the attitude is keep everyone living as long as possible. I'm sorry, I don't want to be 80, confined to a bed with a crappy quality of life being forced to suffer til the day I die.
I'm sure some is going to think my thoughts are garbage, but it is my opinion.
We need new ideas, not the same beating of an old horse in different ways.
