Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Again, a few of you guys seem to not understand how government functions and have never heard the term debating.
So I guess if a congressman introduces a bill to outlaw gay sex or outlaw riding a bicycle or add a tax on running shoes, that's OK with you because he's just "debating" activities that he thinks people should not engage in?
Jacking the prices through taxation has reduced cigarette use, but something is needed to get the hard core abusers and a jail term and fines may be the answer. Cigarettes smokers cost all of us billions in higher health care costs so we all have a stake in stopping them.
I love how you call yourself a "moderate." You're the closest thing to a fascist we have posting here on C-D.
If you think that creating a bill is the way to "start a conversation", then it is you who does not have a clue how the government works.
I give up, you guys think all the hyperbole you want because clearly you aren't going to pay attention to context. Bills are proposed all the time to create a debate about a topic and often times a different form of a bill makes it through than the original one that started the debate. If you guys don't understand that, then everything else is pointless to talk about.
So I guess if a congressman introduces a bill to outlaw gay sex or outlaw riding a bicycle or add a tax on running shoes, that's OK with you because he's just "debating" activities that he thinks people should not engage in?
Yes, that would be okay and has happened plenty of times before. That is what debating is. Just because a bill is created doesn't mean it will pass or that everyone will like it or agree with it.
Location: planet octupulous is nearing earths atmosphere
13,621 posts, read 12,727,909 times
Reputation: 20050
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ponderosa
Jacking the prices through taxation has reduced cigarette use, but something is needed to get the hard core abusers and a jail term and fines may be the answer. Cigarettes smokers cost all of us billions in higher health care costs so we all have a stake in stopping them.
if you are caught with a bag of Doritos that weighs more than 2 ounces you should be subject to imprisonment for a term of year. if caught giving Doritos contraband to minors!! one should be imprisoned for a term no less than 10 years.. if caught with 20 ounces of Doritos contraband or more, one shall serve a term of life in prison with no option for parole...
don't even think about getting me on the subject of Twinkies!!!!
I give up, you guys think all the hyperbole you want because clearly you aren't going to pay attention to context. Bills are proposed all the time to create a debate about a topic and often times a different form of a bill makes it through than the original one that started the debate. If you guys don't understand that, then everything else is pointless to talk about.
Committees are formed to create that bill to begin with with both sides participating.
That's how it works.
I'll go one further; if the DNA and Blood sample analysis Texans were being required to "donate" during a recent highway traffic stop show that you have a faulty gene linked to one of the debilitating and incurable diseases that require years of expensive treatment; let's just call you in and nip your boys or perform a tubal ligation on your sorry azz and also upon your progeny so you and they cannot reproduce and pass that gene along.
if you are caught with a bag of Doritos that weighs more than 2 ounces you should be subject to imprisonment for a term of year. if caught giving Doritos contraband to minors!! one should be imprisoned for a term no less than 10 years.. if caught with 20 ounces of Doritos contraband or more, one shall serve a term of life in prison with no option for parole...
don't even think about getting me on the subject of Twinkies!!!!
or Moonpies; a scourge!
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
