PETA Tax

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The animal rights wackos are at it again.

The nutjobs at PETA are proposing a 10 percent œmeat tax similar to alcohol, gasoline and tobacco taxes. The revenue generated would be used to the ubiquitous œhealth education programs and the altruistic-sounding concept of preventative medicine.

The nutjobs also are lobbying for tax breaks for people who avoid eating meat or animal products.

First, I am amused at the concept of leftwing nutjobs advocated any sort of tax breaks for anyone. To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, they™ve never seen a tax they didn™t hike. In this case, it™s for people who have chosen an extremist lifestyle and want to force the rest of us to subsidize that extremist lifestyle.

It™s a free country. If you want to choose a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle, go ahead. Nothing™s stopping you. The rest of us can sit back and laugh at you but if you can deal with that, good for you. But you (a) don™t have the right to force your lifestyle on the rest of us and (/cool.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="B)" border="0" alt="cool.gif" /> don™t have the right to demand the rest of us subsidize it.

On health education programs, the vast majority of people are intelligent enough to know what benefits and risks are associated with various types of foods. This is like tobacco education programs. The warning from the surgeon general on tobacco products was first published in 1964, yet people continued to smoke.

What liberals that advocate these type of punitive behavior taxes don™t like is people making choices of which they disapprove. This is where elitism comes into play. The vast majority of liberals look at the average American as an idiot, a dolt, a moron, an imbecile, incapable of even existing without government.

A comparison we™ve used here before: liberals view the relationship between government and the average American as that between a parent and a child. The parent is there to guide the child and make decisions for the child because the child is assumed not to be intelligent, experienced or mature enough to make those decision by himself or herself. The irony here being is many liberals who view adults as children in need of nanny-like guidance from government tend to view real children as mature enough to make their own decisions.

Facts are stubborn things. Each of us has the right in a free society to consume food and beverages of our own choosing. And, we are responsible for our own choices. What I choose to eat or drink affects no one but me. As such, levying punitive taxes on items of which the elitists and activists disapprove is wrong on so many levels.

It™s just more income redistribution to advance an extreme leftwing political and social agenda.

Not to mention keep more bureaucrats fat, happy and healthy. And employed.

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The fact that you are arguing against their idiocy proves that they are prevailing.

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????? Your statemnet makes no sense

This shit is actually up for a possible vote -- hell yeah their idoicy is prevailing but not backed by a majority of the public.

Hitlers idoiocy prevailed and was beaten down -- just because it prevails (for a time) doesnt mean its correct, just, lawful or just -- Thier plan is just plain UnAmerican, UnDemocratic, Discriminatory AND retarded.

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I stand for Vegetable Rights! Have you ever seen the way they farm corn? That huge, cold, and heartless machine chopping the stalks off at the base leaving nothing but a broken stump half torn from the mother Earth. Can't you hear the screams of a tomato as your knife passes through its skin? The horror of it all is just too much! Those horrid salad eating people just make me sick! The inhumanity of it all is just too much. I need to go cry now.

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QUOTE(gmsnctry @ Jun 15 2007, 08:44 AM) ????? Your statemnet makes no sense

This shit is actually up for a possible vote -- hell yeah their idoicy is prevailing but not backed by a majority of the public.

Hitlers idoiocy prevailed and was beaten down -- just because it prevails (for a time) doesnt mean its correct, just, lawful or just -- Thier plan is just plain UnAmerican, UnDemocratic, Discriminatory AND retarded.It makes sense if you think about it. No idea gets anywhere without opposition. If someone would have tried to debate this issue in 1947, he would have been laughed at. Hitler was a wonderful debater.