JT> Here in australia, the govt. is still rolling in tax from
JT> tobacco, so it'll never be outlawed till they can either work
JT> out how to make money out of other means, or all smokers die
JT> out and there's no new young smokers to take their place. 

 Everyone says that, but it's crap! The governnemt does not give a
shit about tax money from tobacco. Heroin is a bigger business, and
that's not taxed at all. How does a politician like John W Dickhead
benefit from taxes? Not at all.

 What *actually* happens is that the tobacco companies (and the drug
lords) *buy* political parties. Tax has got nothing to do with it...
it's "gifts" to pollies and parties that keeps them in business.

JT> Just like the laws for growing your own 'normal' tobacco are
JT> often more strict than growing your own whaky tabbaccy.

 Tobacco is excised, Pay the excise and you can grow as much as you
like wherever you like.

JT> Why do you think many of the pollies are pushing for
JT> legalisation of grass?

 Because they're pot-heads.

JT> They can finally make some money out of it- where at the
JT> moment, all they're gaining are a few minor political points
JT> from getting rid of it. 

 How does *any* politician benefit *personally* from taxes? They do
not give a shit.. unless it benefits them personally. Wake up, John!

 If they need another billion they just put on a gun-levy or some
such shit. Just wind up the spin-doctor, think up a nice way to put
it, (like tax-reform, motherhood-levy, Bali tax) and jump the tax up a
billion. How easy is that? That's why we're the highest taxed nation
in the Western World. It's too easy.

JT> The only _other_ people pushing for this are drug users, who
JT> are so far brain damaged they can't tell the differenece, it's
JT> the drug _pushers_ that are silent, because they know their
JT> profit margins will end up being nothing more than smoke
JT> blowing out of their windows. -- 

 The biggest joke in recent times was that Sydney was the *last*
major city in Oz to get a legal casino. Why was that... because we
already had ten illegal casinos paying off the Liberal Party. That's
why they'll never legalise pot.

Regards,
Bob
   

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