Muscatine

LIL I cant believe you said something so dumb!and mean!

Goood morrring!

What a gloriously sunny and WARMMMMM day it is, and those sounds of Spring and----------------oh wait, that's a few weeks off yet. Doesn't hurt to dream I guess.

 I'm fat. I use to smoke, I was fat before I smoked and I have not eaten a "food chain burger" in apr. ten years. But I sure do love my sugared treats. Though hypothyroidism is hardly fatal, it does help to keep a body robust. Corpulence isn't a sin, perhaps unsightly to many? and though a health risk to us "hefty honeis", it won't cause cancer or "Fatty Patty" by second hand observation. We can cover all the ways a tubby like myself makes others reflect, or expound, sardonically-"I'm not fat," Or, you see the asses on that" but then as an epidemic of gelatinous zombies invade the schools, pools and mall walker's domain, some seem to equate that poor persons- personal problems, with some sort of tax. Now I realize it's a potential comedic dream, but in all fairness, eluding to a sin tax based on what a person might eat or where, is just a sad reflection on that individual's quilt? perhaps for partaking, legally and freely of course, in a health gamble that doesn't have a thing to do with what EVERYONE NEEDS, regardless of it's origins, FOOD. I smoked for a long time and quite finally after about the third attempt by simply realizing that my families health was truly more important. Yes, we all recall Johnny Carson, George Goble, Dean Martin sitting behind the desk or standing behind that dais with a smoldering "Cig" and or drink, cutting up and enjoying life. The "Duke" lost one lung to cigs and finally, well you know. Oblivious to the truth.

Apathetic souls we were, dropping tens of dollars a month on that nerve soothing, smooth, satisfying, fagg. One after another, then by the millions we started to die of COPD, emphysema, lung cancers and who knows how many bronchial disorders. Not just the coal miners, grist millers, brake mechanics, asbestos workers, and dozens of other lung destroying vocations. No folks, all we did was finally realize that among ALL the other nasty killer jobs we dove into since the industrial revolution, there is this reality that society has finally set aside the past, and looked to the future.  This government will always find ways to tax the consumer without any actual representation. So I say, let em smoke, let em eat what they want, pay representatives by the hour. Reduce the FAT at the top. Besides all that, if we consider a tax on an item because it's not really needed by ANYONE but the seller to sell? Then we would just sign each paycheck over to "Uncle Sam" and let HIM drop off our sealed meals, our national uniforms, and pay our bills, while we sit in front of the Government run, sponsored, programed, and continually looped single channel, informing US, that the government is great, the Government is good, and we should just let them do ANYTHING they want. It will sign off each night promptly at ten with a scene of our constitution flaming to ashes. 

If taxing an ever decreasing group of smokers, drinkers and candy bar eaters makes a person feel better about not smoking or drinking, then it shouldn't stop there either. I disagree with it, but why not take in everyone? Tax the pet owner who isn't blind, tax the cats and mice owners, tax the surround speaker system buyer, the bottled water, the paper plates, brand named anything,  lobster, tuna, chicken breast dinner(especially without skin) because you can eat wings, necks and backs. Who the hell needs an alligator shirt when you can have a simple white Fruit Of The Loom(no pocket)? If one doesn't need to hunt for his/her food, then hit them hard too. If one doesn't need to fish for food, then----------you see how silly all this really is? I have heard this one too "Remove that tax by simply taking that item off the market." HA! what would they tax then? EVERYTHING AS ABOVE. The revenue from these items is mind boggling. So, I agree finally with it.

If it's a vice that takes a guy into the path of a school bus, or chokes the life out of a kid who started because it was "cool", tax it by all means, just leave my Mallomars alone!.   

God Bless.