Why do pro life liberals complain that laws regulating abortion are legislation of

04-04-2009, 03:32 PM

morals, yet they approve of? Obama's "sin" tax on tobacco???

**Silly Penguin** · 04-04-2009, 03:33 PM

Abortion is good for the environment.

Population explosions strain food sources.

God wouldn't want ALL of us to die of starvation.

... and taxing smokers is not the same as banning it.

04-04-2009, 03:33 PM

Technically, every law is legislation of morals, so their entire argument is pointless and carries no weight.

What I want to know is - why do they want to protect the "privacy" of a 14 year old girl that gets abortion, but support national health care that would reveal everyone's health care information to the government?

For all those people who say taxing isn't the same as banning, it can be, if the tax is high enough. The funny thing is, if they keep raising taxes on tobacco, enough people will quit that their tax revenue will actually go down.

Tonalc2, liquor tax hasn't gone up since the 50s. As far as I know, there's no tax on gambling.

KH - "Tobacco is taxed because smoking causes a burden on the health care system. People who smoke tobacco are putting themselves at risk for heart disease and lung cancer."

Oh I see! So I'm sure you agree with raising taxes on everything else that causes heart disease and cancer, right?

Not to mention, Obama said that people who make under $250,000 a year won't see their taxes go up a dime. I guess that was just another lie.

04-04-2009, 03:33 PM

Sorry "Seldon...", the whole "choice" isn't an outright ban so you can still do it is a COP OUT. If something is taxed to an obscenely high rate it might as well be banned. People simply can't afford to continue doing... whatever.

And it IS legislating morality to put a "sin tax" on items... it doesn't have to be an outright ban because to determine something should be taxed means there is a moral judgement about item X that it isn't a "good" thing.

**brown9500v3** · 04-04-2009, 03:33 PM

They don't if they smoke. The tobacco taxes are every bit as much a child of the Republican thought police as they are a product of the liberal thought police.

04-04-2009, 03:34 PM

Tobacco is already heavily taxed.
The tax goes toward those anti-smoking commercials.
It's part of the tobacco lawsuit settlement years ago.

Of course, that won't stop an idiot like you from blaming Obama for everything.

**wineboy** · 04-04-2009, 03:34 PM

what are you talking about? do you even know?

04-04-2009, 03:34 PM

What's pro life?

04-04-2009, 03:35 PM

I believe you mean "pro life"
But because they are too far left
Anytime someone goes too far on a political spectrum they get a bit....wacky.
Same for both GOP and Dems