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Re:Suburban school district uses license plate readers to ve... by mikkupikku on Thursday March 12, 2026 @12:09PM (#47352962)
Smokers know the score by now. It's time for society to stop coddling them. Tax their asses to the Moon, call it reparations for all the smog and stentch they subjected the rest of us to for generations.
Re:Suburban school district uses license plate readers to ve... by AngryData on Thursday March 12, 2026 @10:08PM (#47359888)
Smokers already pay far more in sin taxes than the average persons entire lifetime medical costs, and also smokers cost less than the average person in medical costs because smoking disqualifies them from many procedures and they don't live until they are 90 when they need expensive hip replacements and 30 medications a day.
Re:Suburban school district uses license plate readers to ve... by mikkupikku on Friday March 13, 2026 @06:55AM (#47362754)
Medical costs? Okay, how about paying for the smog and stench?

$200 per pack, increasing yearly. That'd probably be about right. You should have quit years ago. If you started smoking anytime in the past 50 or so years, after being taught in taxpayer funded schools not to smoke, then you should receive an additional one-time fee of a hundred thousand dollars, because genuinely fuck you.

Re:Suburban school district uses license plate readers to ve... by AngryData on Saturday March 14, 2026 @12:44AM (#47373440)
So should we also put $200 tax on stinky food? Stinky people? Stink perfumes?

Just because you don't personally like something doesn't justify ever increasing taxes on it.