Mo and Doyle
Our good friend Maureen over at Smoke Free Wisconsin has proven to us that her entire smoke-free existence is a contradiction.
In a recent opinion article in the Capital Times, Mo’ seems to be upset over the fact that smokers should quit because of economic hardship, presumably due to the softening economy. She makes her point by pointing out the cost of cigarettes versus food and gas. In other words, she is advocating for quitting for economic reasons.
Of course, Mo’ put the smokers in this position in the first place. When we look at the price of cigarettes, the single biggest monetary benefactor is the state thanks to people like Maureen who pushed for increased taxation.
So let me get this straight… Mo’ put the thumbscrews on the smokers by raising state cigarette taxes. Because of a weakening economy, the thumbscrews get tighter at which point she says “See! look how expensive smoking is. You should quit.”
At no point would she acknowledge that she is directly responsible for economically hurting smokers, yet she will happily point out how the economy is hurting them. She can’t possibly be so obtuse that she doesn’t get it, so we are left to (reasonably) assume that she doesn’t believe that she is at all responsible for hurting these people through crippling [regressive] taxation but instead will blame the economy for increasing the burden of economic hardship.
I would ask how people like Mo’ sleep at night, but given my knowledge of her comfortable income (provided by Smoke Free Wisconsin), I suspect that she sleeps quite comfortably.
Filed under: anti insanity, economic impact, reality check | Tagged: Maureen Busalacchi, regressive taxation, smoking, tobacco taxes
Maureen looks a little chubby, doesn’t she?
Maybe she should cut down on pizza.
Better yet, we should ban pizza sales to protect Maureen Busalacchi from herself–and protect the rest of us from having to look at her and other fat people.
We’ll need to start an organization (PizzaFreeWisconsin) and get secret funding from Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers and Richard Simmons.
Sorry my comment was a bit snarky, but I’m really getting tired of these people.
OK…it was more than a bit snarky, it was very snarky.
Of course if pizza is banned in Maureen’s hometown of Madison, we’ll need a statewide ban to level the playing field.
I wonder if Maureen knows (or cares) about the “hidden costs” to taxpayers due to overweight people and the drain on our health care system from treating heart disease, hypertension, stroke, diabetes, colon cancer and other illnesses suffered by fat people. I didn’t even mention bariatric surgery or liposuction.
Let’s start controlling these costs to all of us by an indoor ban in workplaces, restaurants, bars and other places open to the public on the types of food that make fat people fat and expose the rest of society to their gluttony.
If fat people want to eat pizza and deep fried foods, they can step outside or eat in the privacy (for now) of their own homes.
Yes…I know that some businesses fear a ban like this will affect their business, but many thin people who avoid these businesses now (because they allow fat people to eat) will come flocking after they are able to enjoy themselves in post-ban, fat-free establishments. Trust us. “If you ban it, they will come.”
People don’t need to eat pizza or fast food. Mo is a very bad example to Wisconsin children.
Hey if a pizza can’t stay in business because of a pizza ban, then they must be lousy business people. Why didn’t they change their business plan to attract different customers? After all, people don’t go to a pizza place for pizza! If all a pizza place has to offer is a place to get pizza, then they don’t deserve to be in business. Why should the rest of us be forced to eat pizza? Why should the rest of us be poisoned because these pizza addicts won’t quit? Why shold we have to come home from a night out smelling like pizza? We have a right to a pizza free environment. They can still eat pizza outside! If their customers had any loyalty they’d still go there, instead of abandoning their neighborhood pizza place to go somewhere else just to get what they want. We should round up all of these pizza eaters and send them to internment camps – at least the pizza doesn’t whine when we put it in the oven!