Ravenwood - 10/23/02 02:12 PM
"I just find it inconceivable that you could equate people's lives - particularly children that buy cigarettes in bodegas - with a minor economic issue." -- NYC Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, answering complaints of Bodega owners who are going out of business due to the decline of cigarette sales.
I find it inconceivable that a Mayor could take the livelihood away from hundreds of Bodega owners, and then claim he's doing it 'for the children'. Even worse, he characterizes it as a 'minor economic issue'. For the record, it is already illegal to sell cigarettes to minors in the state of New York.
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Michael Bloomberg is the personification of what frightens me about government. He is an overbearing, moralistic prick with a personal agenda and he is using the power of his office to force his idea of righteousness down other people's throats. He doesn't see it that way, however, because he believes that he is doing "good." Therefore, he feels no guilt and no pangs of conscience, no matter how many people he hurts.
THOSE are the really scary fuckers in government!
Posted by: Acidman at October 23, 2002 5:33 PMIf NYC wants to tax, that is fine. Now help these guys out by enforcing the tax law, and crack down on the illegal sales. I see them every weekend at my local Costco, loading their minivans with cheap Virginia cigarettes (probably NC too).
20 million packs worth of smokers haven't quit....they just found a cheaper source.
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