Measure 50: BAD!

Alright, here we go again: ANOTHER TAX.
This time, it's smokes. I know, 'smoking is bad' blah-blah-blah...But here's the real deal here: This is a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT that places a tax on cigarettes. It's forcing smokers to 'pay for the health care of the children' and there you have the most over used phrase in politics today: 'For the children.' I, for one, am sick of hearing about the damned children!
Look, this bill is simply a bad idea and it's no suprise that Oregon is backing it. To force the poor and uneducated to pay for the health care of children in families that make more money than them is wrong. The Democrats claim to love the poor yet are always taxing them, what's that about?
they want to tax cigarettes to pay for the kids health care, sounds like a good idea, right? The money raised also goes towards anit-smoking programs to get people to stop smoking, another good idea, right? It's also hoped that this tax will get more people to stop smoking, great idea...right?
Well, if there are fewer people smoking, then what about 'the children?' What about their health?
And that's just one side of this, another side sounds like this: The Constitution is supposed to showcase the rights and freedoms of the people. Where, exactly, does a tax fit into that? To put a tax in such a document does nothing more than put discrimination in that same document. It's basically saying 'everyone has rights EXCEPT YOU SMOKERS! YOU get to pay more because your habit stinks!' How's that fair?
Look at Portland, Randy Leonard, our very own Napoleon, has banned smoking in some OUTSIDE areas and in January smoking in bars is going to be banned because the 'state leaders' think it's for the best, their lame argument that people who work in bars are forced to breathe in second hand smoke and that's not right is paper thin and very stupid.
I find it sad that in this country, especially in this state, Smokers, AMERICAN SMOKERS are treated much the way illegal aliens aren't. Shouldn't we be treating illegal aliens like the criminals they are and not tax paying American citizens?

Measure 50 is bad law. It forces a tax on a single part of our society. Forcing them to pay for the health care of other people's brats.
MORE TAX IS BAD TAX.

VOTE NO ON 50!!

I am!