Yep, tobacco is a legal product. Smoking can kill a person; this has been a known fact since about 1954: Despite all the warnings, millions of Americans choose to smoke.
Now the Obama bunch wants "access" to the 300 billion dollars in profits that the tobacco companies have made.
You wondered where the white house would get the money to fund their liberal schemes. Now you have it: They will go after companies who make lots of money. Look for the white house to go after oil company profits next.
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John Banzhaf, executive director of the group Action on Smoking and Health, which helped advise the U.S. on how to use the RICO statute against the industry, says it's unlikely the court will agree to hear the industry's appeal. But even if it does, Banzhaf says he doesn't think the industry's arguments hold merit. "The great majority of RICO cases don't involve organized crime like the Mafia, but rather involve businesses that engage in fraud and deception," Banzhaf says. "It seems to me that the evidence is overwhelming against the tobacco industry."
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The Obama administration has asked the court to allow it to seek $280 million in past profits from the industry. If the Supreme Court overturns the RICO conviction, the government's request for access to industry profits will be moot.
And the "Shake Down" artist moves on to the next victim. Is there any wonder why jobs have declined with no end in sight? There is no industry safe. Nbo private bank account safe. Obama has shown what the liberals and dems are all about, "other peoples money and property".
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Obama is poised to raise our taxes at the end of the year. He’s pushing for comprehensive “immigration reform” that will really act as an amnesty for illegal immigrants. He has denigrated Arizona before Mexico, bowed before the king of Saudi Arabia and the Chinese president and the ***anese emperor, hugged a Venezuelan quasi-dictator, and undermined a constitutional uprising in Honduras. He has pushed carbon taxes and gas taxes and estate taxes. He has propped up unfit mortgage borrowers and penalized those who pay their mortgage on time. He has bailed out his buddies in the banking industry and nationalized the auto and health industries for the benefit of his union friends.
Obama has insulted the Cambridge police and defended Muslim terrorists like Maj. Nidal Hassan. He has utilized advisers who are Marxists (former Green Jobs Czar Van Jones), anti-Semites (foreign policy adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, special adviser Samantha Power, National Security Adviser Adm. James Jones), racists (Attorney General Eric Holder), sycophantic pro-Islamists (Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan), kooks (Director of White House Office of Science and Technology John Holdren), perverts (Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings), and paid thugs (Rahm Emanuel).
When Obama took office, the national debt was just under $10 trillion. Now it is $12 trillion, and by 2015, it will be at least $19.6 trillion. Unemployment under Obama increased to 9.7 percent, up from 7.6 percent when Bush left office. The inflation rate has yet to explode, but most economists believe it will have to unless Obama drastically raises taxes, destroying the economy even further.
So why wouldn't he be attacking the tobacco companies, he attacking everyone else!
Carter can’t touch this guy. This guy is a threat to our country and should be arrested for treason!
And people say there is no difference between the 2 parties.
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John Adams “The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.”
Ronald Reagan: 'Everybody that is for abortion has already been born'
"I never said I was worth it. I only said I wouldn't do it for less " William F. Buckley Jr.
I truly wonder what will happen if, on November 3rd, the dems still have control of both houses of Congress. This sort of oppressive and illegal dominion over the Amerikan people cannot be allowed to continue... I can only hope that when this commie and his cadre are ousted in 2 years, that there will be criminal prosecutions and incarcerations. I wouild not oppose execution for some of the more virulent slobs employed by this destroyer. God help us all until then.....
This is outrageous! What is next? Are these hooligans going to target my industry? I tell you truely, we, the International Brotherhood of Bathtub Gin Manufacturers will not take this lieing down!
Just a little humor. It is worth noting that, whatever the deliterious effects of smoking tobbaco, these guys aren't proposing to outlaw cigarettes -- this might be a principled initiative aimed at saving the lives of the weak willed (might also start an underground business and empower new criminal networks -- the law of unintended consequences must always be consulted in such matters) -- but instead they are proposing merely to take a piece of the action, as it were. Not really principled or justified in that the tobacco industry is a vice industry, this is just another tax, a shake down, a redistribution of wealth. This is just socialism in a different guise. Take from the rich in order to give to the poor.
Didn't the Socialist scum just raise cigarette taxes last year? To answer my own question... Yes, they did, thereby breaking Obama's promise not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 per year...
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Single Largest Cigarette Tax Hike Goes Into Effect Wednesday
Published March 29, 2009
| AP
In the 2012 election, EVERY single person who pulls the lever for Obama is a fool.
Obama Goes After Tobacco Companies
