Do you know what would happen if you gave a bunch of bananas to a?bunch of monkeys?
On Apr 27, 5:50*pm, Jobst Brandt wrote:
Someone wrote:
Increasing the tax on gas would save thousands of lives a year as
people drove slower to get better mileage. We saw that in 2008.
Oh, yeah. *Brilliant idea.
How 'bout those food prices, huh?
Funny too how the food prices didn't drop after gas dropped from
$4/ gallon...
I only wished meat and junk food was pricey enough to reduce its
consumption. But all we got to do is TAX JUNK FOOD/MEAT and
subsidize the good stuff.
Cigarettes have risen enormously in price in the last ten years and
the same folks still burn them at a great rate. *When people have an
addiction, their fervor seems to rise with price of their habit. *I
have little hope for the proposal.
Jobst Brandt
Still smokers are fewer than in other countries where cigarettes are
cheaper.
It made me quit 13 years ago.
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