So what does Bush know?
Earmarked taxes are often abused. Those taxes will go to healthcare but an equal amount of general funds will be later diverted away. When smoking tax revenue drops, some general funds will be diverted back. The cash diverted out will be spent on something else as yet unspecified. So what is the President trying to block? Is he blocking a known project or is it just blocking some unknown, future spending? Or is it something else?
Of course Congress are less than honest. Shall we give Bush the benefit of the doubt and assume he's blocking some unspecified, corrupt spending, which will be worse than the smoking that can be prevented? Or shall we be more cynical and assume he's playing his normal game of silly buggers.
As for the alternate, consumer spending. Junk food is not as bad as inhaling smoke and powerful poisons on a regular basis. Still a good thing to do.
Matthew Greet
Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?
- Mark Renton, Trainspotting.
