California: Dumb Enough to Want to Ban Flavored Tobacco
Statists in California are working to expand the unpopular, expensive, and pointless War on Drugs by trying to ban flavored tobacco.
The reason to ban this terrifying drug? Supposedly, the fact that the tobacco is flavored means that it's targeting kids (since, according to their "logic", adults don't like flavors. No adult has ever gotten an apple martini, right?)
My response: so what? Are we now pretending that people don't sell unhealthy idiocy to kids? Do Cheetos, Fruit Loops, and McDonald's not target kid? Doesn't heart disease kill more people than pretty much anything?
This proposed law has only one possible goal: to perpetuate the lie that parents are not responsible for their kids. It is trying to convince us that the state should be the parent, and the parent has no responsibility to provide guidance and, well, parenting.
The proposed law is just weird. But the underlying principle is dangerous. We need to fight and vote down that law. We need to go farther, by ending the entire drug war. We also need to end the drinking age. It doesn't work. In many European countries, kids are introduced to alcohol by...their parents. They are given guidance and exposure. They are shown how to drink responsibly and civilly by parents who care about them, rather than by a state that is squarely in the pockets of the mass-market alcohol lobby.
Americans, on the other hand, are given guidance by the state. The state's advice: as soon as you're 21, get vomitously drunk like an idiot (primarily using mass produced alcohol by lobbyist-heavy companies, of course).
When parents know they are the ones responsible, they often do a pretty good job. When they are told that the state will handle it, they leave it up to the state, who always does it wrong.
Why else do homeschoolers outperform kids trapped in government schools? Their parents have less experience than government school teachers, but they care more. They have realized that providing guidance is their responsibility, not the state's.
Let's end the drug war, abolish the drinking age, and abolish government schools. Parents, not the state, should provide guidance.
If elected, I will do everything I can to abolish the drinking age, end the drug war, and get the state out of education.
Respectfully,
Arvin Vohra (L)
Candidate for U.S. Senate
Just when you thought the statist were too statist they step up their game, god damn this is so bull shit (excuse my language) but holy hell man ughhhhhhhh. I am running for my local city council and I am gonna get my community to take a stand against the state and federal government. We will not be getting building permits to build on our land, we will not follow there dumb "laws" that I call opinion's because that is all they are. Great post keep it up!
usually you get building permits from the city, not the state or the feds.
well I am just saying like I will make it so my city does not force people to ask permission to build on their land
anyone can build anything anywhere on their land? do you own land there?
Yeah and if I wanted to build off my house I would be coerced into getting a permit (or permission)
Which seems unfair unless you consider that your neighbor has to do the same, can you think of anything your neighbor might build on their property that might negatively affect the value of your property?
no, his property would rise in value and mine would stay the same or it could loose value just because of the city's economic condition.
Lets say your neighbor decides to build a portapotty storage/cleaning facility right on your property line with an open cesspool, you don't think that would negatively affect the value of your property? of course it would. And that would not only harm you it would harm the city and everyone who lives there because then they cannot collect as much taxes on your property.
That's why we have permits required, because the things you do on your property don't just affect you.
Without that then you would have to spend a bunch of money and time to sue your neighbor and prove damages and then he would have to spend a bunch of money and time to get rid of his portapotty cleaning cesspool, if you won. So it is much better to not have any of that happen by requiring permits before you do something stupid that will cause a bunch of harm to various parties.
Great post dude !
Doesn't heart disease kill more people than pretty much anything?
Yes, but smoking is a close second.
That said banning things is stupid and counterproductive.
Let's put a ban on stupidity then we can focus on ignorance and maybe after that we can educate.
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