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It's true it seems, smoking will kill you but you don't have to light one, just wanting one will kill you. The Brown and Garner killings were started because the Barack Obama government continues to tax poor people blind, causing them to do illegal things to get their fix, just like Barack Obama.
Obama should sign an executive order today, removing all tobacco taxes. Void all tobacco taxes, local, state and federal and try to save more black men from being killed by their local governments in every village, city and town.
Millionaire NFL FOOTBALL PLAYERS are now taking part in the protesting of the street criminals being removed by their government in the total control of Barack Obama. The innocent and illegal cigarette tax, imposed at all levels of government, was the very seed that killed both Negroes. One Negro (Brown) was stealing cigars and the other Negro (Garner) was selling cigarettes.
You see, the government, wants black people to pay very high taxes on cigars and cigarettes, forcing poor people to steal them and in New York City forcing other people to buy and sell them as singles. As long as Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton gets their tax money, to re-distribute- they could care less about a few deadbeats getting killed.
The NFL is trying to help stir trouble by painting up their T-shirts with "I Can't Breathe" slogans, keeping the protests alive. We all wonder if Michelle Obama buys Barack's cigarettes by the carton, pack or on the corner one at a time. Michael Bloomberg, who is
infamous for regulating everything from large sodas to tanning salons to guns,
hired Jonathan Gruber in 2008 to write a report on the implications of tobacco
taxes, titled A Modern Economic View of Tobacco Taxation.
Therein, Gruber
thanks Obama’s now-CDC Director Tom Frieden for providing feedback on the paper
and for his “very helpful suggestions.”
Gruber’s position on cigarette
taxes was already established and well-documented. In April 2002, he published
an article titled “Do Cigarette Taxes Make Smokers Happier?” that promoted the
benefits of higher cigarette taxes. In May of that year, Gruber also wrote an
article titled, “Estimating Price Elasticities when there is Smuggling: The
Sensitivity of Smoking Price in Canada.”
The report pointed out that in Canada
in the 1990s there was widespread smuggling "in response to large tax
increases."
Therefore, Gruber was fully aware of the potential of illegal
cigarette sales from tax increases when he wrote his 2008 article for Mayor
Bloomberg.
Both Obamacare and tobacco
taxes have been public policy disasters that have spawned myriad unintended
consequences.
In Obamacare, millions of people have lost their doctors and/or
policies. Enrollment numbers are way below the Obama administration's
projections. Soon we will find out if companies will cancel employer plans,
thereby throwing many more people onto the exchanges than anticipated.
In regards to cigarette taxes,
the problem of black-market tobacco sales has exploded all along the east
coast.
According to a Bloomberg article published in May, Maryland Comptroller
Peter Franchot stated,
“We are all-hands-on-deck as far as cigarette smuggling
because it’s no longer a mom-and-pop operation... It’s something that
significant criminal entities are involved in, and it’s a target-rich
environment.” What happened on Staten Island with Eric Garner is tragic, but
his confrontation with police would not have happened without the cigarette
taxes which created a market for his alleged illegal sales—taxes passed without
consideration for unintended and often adverse consequences.
The lesson: don't allow overly
powerful politicians to hire economists with ideological axes to grind to craft
public policies riddled with unintended consequences
Beware: what is another issue
of interest to Gruber? Global warming.
Here’s hoping Gruber’s
congressional testimony on Tuesday will further lead to Oblimination: the end
and reversal of Obama's failed policies.
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