sean: now the biden fda today followed through on banding juul vaping products over youth vaping concerns, they say but why are they going after other brands of ecigs? how does the government justify, they are making $12 billion a year off of cigarette taxes, they going to ban them too is that too much money in the coffers? why not raise the age to 21 and make it simple like buying a beer. wise but by not focusing on securing the border? there are estimates that 90% of the heroin in this country, fentanyl, methamphetamine come into this country from our southern border. we are losing 300 americans a week in overdose deaths. by the way, when it comes to states like portland, they are decriminalizing all of these hard drugs.
country. i want to consider how a real democracy actually handles gun issues and changes to gun laws. consider what canadian prime minister justin trudeau had to say about guns in canada. tucker: [laughs] canada looks down on america! informs the rachel maddow impersonators on msnbc. notice they use to brag about the canadian health care system. it is so great, why don t we emulate it? you re not her that recently. why is that? because canadians flee here for serious operation. the truth is, in canada as the united states, people you just on television, formulating these restrictions, gun grabs, violations of your constitutional rights, will never under any circumstances give up their own weapons of war. they just want to make it harder for you to defend yourself. now as in the case with all of these laws, from cigarette taxes to gun laws, the poor get hurt the most. charla duff and steve kneeling,
do these kinds of tricks with the recall, and think about this for a second. this is over 40 million people. this is like one-eighth of the country. to come under control by this maniac, larry elder, is just crazy. it s all about power grab. they are trying everywhere around the country and they are trying it in a big way here in california. california is the biggest prize of any blue state in the country. now, i want to tell you something about larry elder. i debated larry elder years ago. i passed an initiative here in california to raise cigarette taxes to fund early childhood and we debated and because we knew that by raising cigarette taxes you were going to reduce people smoking, which was a good thing. larry elder actually took the position in the debate that it was a good thing that people smoked because they would die sooner and it would reduce the health care costs and the drag on the public for medicare,
The Tobacco Tax Equity Act of 2021 Is a Blunt Instrument
The Tobacco Tax Equity Act of 2021 [1], introduced by U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR), with U.S. Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-D-08), seeks to raise the federal tax on cigars, pipe tobacco, smokeless tobacco and alternative nicotine delivery systems (ANDS) to match the tax on combustible cigarettes.[i] [2] From a harm reduction perspective, this strategy is too blunt of an instrument.
Harm reduction recognizes that people will, inevitably, engage in behaviors that may be risky and seeks to provide alternatives that reduce the risk associated with these behaviors. A harm reduction approach to tobacco product taxation involves ensuring that taxation levels are proportionate to the health risks of the product. This creates an incentive for people to choose less harmful products. Since the Tobacco Tax Equity Act of 2021 seeks to equalize taxes on all tobacc
sure. this was an avoidable tragedy. for folks who think you trotted out a garden variety police shield i ve argued when police deserve the death sentence or life sentence. i ve argued when police should go away from brutality, on use force continuum, going to excessive lengths. in this instance, we arrest timed of police officers to arrest somebody, to your point, selling loose cigarettes. what does that mean? it s a small minor infraction. and you re right about that. but those tax stamps on those cigarette taxes are what pays for improving neighborhoods like mr. garner s. so the police were dispatched to do this. they were enforcing the law. mr. garner says on that stop, leave me alone, you re not doing this to me today. mr. garner is 6 3 , 350 pounds