no doubt about it. and states made it better. they said we will discount it and spend it all at once like we won the lottery. yes. go ahead, rob. yeah, peter, i m trying to reconcile the idea that you want to curb these behaviors, whether smoking, drinking, eating twinkies, drinking coke. all those things at the same time, that you don t actually want to make this a consumption tax it sounds like. make it a tax on producers, poison producers as dylan calls it. but i m not sure how this works. if you have the company subsidize the bad behavior, you don t goe from 46 million to 20 million. try to explain that. sure. there are two pieces to the equation. one i don t think you can avoid some sort of sin tax. we are addicted and we will have 20 billion in each state. so i think you have to tax the individual users. what i m concerned about is doing that in isolation. that seems to be necessary perhaps but nowhere near
let s do splg to create health dividend. to encourage the fda to go after cigarette companies as if it is an addictive drug. you will missouont month / monopolize the companies. you sound like me now, be careful. jonathan, sorry i didn t get you in with rob. peter, tank you so much. peter, yes across the board. thank you for spear heading one of the fronts on this fight. i love coming becoming chin check it out. and when you re done. read some greedy bastards. when you re done, we will introduce you to a real life robo cop. follow the wings.
we operate doesn t correlate with higher levels of security, it is just higher levels of feeling secure. dylan, we don t know, because homeland security doesn t put out a press release every time they foiled they have foiled some sort of plot anywhere in the united states. so if anything, we should look at the fact that there hasn t been a major terrorist attack on u.s. soil since september 11th, 2001, as a sign of success. and i m with you in image. the folks who are complaining about like the back scanners that takes the full sort of body image, fine. i would rather have that than be blown up in midair. there is such a thing, rob, where you look at the difference of correlation and causation. and the suggestion that because we are spending all this money on things is the reason other things are not happening is a very convenient way, if you re
jonathan and rob weigh in 21st century privacy, security, and surveillance. mine hurt more! mine stopped hurting faster. [ female announcer ] neosporin® plus pain relief starts relieving pain faster and kills more types of infectious bacteria. neosporin® plus pain relief. for a two dollar coupon, visit neosporin.com.