Guvner of Utah Must be off meds?

[HOOKER]

WTF is this dude think'n????

http://www.sltrib.com/home/2195082-155/new-money-short-sunset-latest-attempts?fullpage=1

[Earthling789]

"The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money" -- Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of U.K.

No, he's not off his meds... he's following suit with the rest of the greedy politicians in this country, and attempting to turn the USA into a Socialist Nation. Sin-taxes are nothing new, and government's always look for the "easy way" to generate revenue off the backs of the sheeple, rather than "how to generate jobs for people and increase their overall wealth". It is a known fact that wealthy nations generate more tax income (at lower rates) than poor nations, even if you tax them at 90%... just ask anyone in France, or Greece!

If e-cigs were not a booming consumer product, they would be nowhere near the radar of our greedy politicians! They see a cash-cow, and an opportunity to sin-tax them like tobacco and alcohol, when they are neither, nor are they nearly as "sinful".

Personally, I think his idea to tax the hospitals (the very ones who provide that healthcare to the poor), is the exact same end-result as forcing hospitals to accept less pay for their product. Along this same logic-path, it is the same as telling a single job-group that minimum wage doesn't count for you... or telling a single job-group (like teachers, who's salaries are generated by those same taxes) that they will have their taxes doubled... just because we (the gov't) says so!!

[aufin]

"...see the price tag get smaller and smaller..."   Yeah, right!!  Hey Gov, I have a bridge I can sell ya.  Interested?