Posted on August 31, 2009 by Marshall
The Marshfield News-Herald has a column that is so full of lies and disinformation that it is almost laughable.
On Tuesday, the price of a pack of cigarettes jumps another 75 cents. That new tax, added to the federal tax increase in April, makes total taxes on a pack of cigarettes $3.53 — and a total [...]
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Posted on July 6, 2009 by Marshall
This is old news that has reared it’s ugly head yet again, this time with an anti-terrorist twist. Of course I am talking about internet sales of tobacco.
Senator Herb Kohl today reintroduced the Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking (PACT) Act of 2009 to provide law enforcement with the tools they need to crack [...]
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Posted on July 5, 2009 by Marshall
It has been suggested by a Democrat that we are a partisan group and that we favor one party over another. From the remember these legislators page.
Lenny Hand, on July 2nd, 2009 at 9:39 am Said:
As a long time member of the Racine city tavern league it was rare that the T.L.W. asked [...]
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Posted on June 26, 2009 by Marshall
Smoke Free Wisconsin is whining about the budget cuts, Due to the fact that they have been caught in more lies then I care to count and the fact that tobacco control is a lobby group pushing to strip property owners of their property rights and therefore stripping the people of freedom of choice, I [...]
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Posted on June 26, 2009 by Marshall
Dr Michael Siegel points out in his blog The rest of the story that the ACS is caught in yet another lie.
As we know, the truth is that Philip Morris – the largest company within Big Tobacco and the company with the overwhelmingly highest amount of lobbying expenditures in Congress – supported the bill and [...]
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Posted on May 4, 2009 by Marshall
We can thank Amy for this one.
Madison – State Sen. Jon Erpenbach (D-Waunakee) has given the public barely 24 hours notice before holding a hearing on a bill to ban smoking that is suddenly racing through the Legislature.
The ban on smoking in workplaces, including restaurants and bars, stalled in recent years but is now on [...]
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Posted on May 1, 2009 by Marshall
Just to show how far smoke free Wisconsin have their noses up our politicians, well you know. Next Wednesday there is a public hearing on the smoking ban. You will find no notification on these hearings anywhere on the internet. Only smoke free had this information. Most of us are not paid [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2009 by Marshall
Smoke Free Wisconsin has a new blog entry called back to basics It warns of the hazards of smoking. You will not find anyone here that disagrees that the act of smoking is a health risk. Where the problem lies is their support of yet another punitive tax meant to further their [...]
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Posted on April 16, 2009 by Marshall
The tobacco control activists and the progressive/socialist who they have in their pockets claim that the goal of the cigarette tax is to get people to quit. Nothing could be further from the truth. The fact that the S-CHIP program is being funded with it is proof that that is not the intentended [...]
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Posted on April 11, 2009 by Marshall
It is not the role of government to use taxes as a means of behavior modification. The role of taxes is to get people to pay their fair share of government. Taxing a minority group goes against everything that our country was founded on.
John Adams defined a constitutional republic as “a [...]
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