Chantix works. You just slowly loose the desire.
Just don't drink while you're on it. Bad things can happen
Posted by at April 10, 2009 10:32 AMLike most middle class workers, I started receiving my Obama Stimulus Tax Cut last week. You know, the tax cut that GOPers McConnell, Boner and the rest of 'em said was going to be a tax increase. Yes, the liars in the GOP spent two months telling us Obama was raising our taxes...anyone who wasn't a liar and could read knew that was just the opposite of true. In fact, the GOP liars actually voted to keep us from getting the tax cut. Strange thing, now that it's in all our wallets, you don't see them on any Cable News Yap show saying "whew, we were wrong"...and the reason, they know they are liars, that is their fundamental response. Lie.
Posted by T2 at April 10, 2009 12:15 PMT2,
The spending Obama is proposing can't be paid for on a sustainable level without raising taxes on incomes lower than $250k.
Handing out the $400 makes good on a campaign promise at present. The "tough choices" will come later.
Posted by Tex at April 10, 2009 01:19 PMRenee's Garden has seeds. They're local, over in the Santa Cruz Mtns somewheres. Quite a variety too.
You can get Renee's over at OSH.
Forget Home Depot's junk. Their Vigoro branded plants have a EULA attached, saying that you can't propogate them. Gimme a break. F'ck em.
Tex, you imbecile. The "tough choices" were made during the last eight years when Tax Cuts for the Rich were all that was done while the deficit and runaway Get Rich Quick bank schemes were allowed to go unregulated. LIke typical GOPer apologists, you've re-directed the argument away from the culpability...my post wasn't about "tough choices" it was about pure, damn lying by GOP Congressmen when it came to the Obama Stimulus. Tax cuts are tax cuts. Except, apparently when they are done by Democrats.
Posted by T2 at April 10, 2009 05:35 PMBest of luck on your quitting smoking.
But let's talk about the worst recession since the Great Depression.
In a recession, consumer spending decreases while unemployment increases, so one would think that the last thing any sensible person would want to do would be to do anything that hurts consumer spending.
Tobacco smokers are consumers who spend a whole lot of money each year at businesses around the country that sell tobacco products.
Therefore, decreased tobacco buying due to a huge increase in the tobacco tax will lead to shortfalls in revenue at many small businesses that sell tobacco products, no doubt leading to layoffs.
Plus, by combining this huge tobacco tax increase to an expansion of SCHIPS, with the hoped-for result by the anti-tobacco activists being that smokers will either cut back or quit, one can predict that the SCHIPS expansion will also suffer a revenue shortfall, requiring additional funding from somewhere else.
Nothing seems to ever change where nutty conservatives are concerned. They always exploit a crisis for their personal gain or some pet project, invariably making things worse, but especially worse for the children caught in the path of the nutty conservatives. Warmongering conservatives, with their war on whatever or against whomever, literally cause hell on earth for so, so many.
During his campaign for president last year, President Obama made a pledge that no one making less than $250,000 would see an increase in taxes "of any sort." Oh well, another politician, another broken campaign promise, because this tobacco tax increase is definitely a regressive tax that will adversely impact the poor and middle-class much more than the wealthy, while cutting into the tobacco-related revenues of many small businesses and lead to layoffs...just what our country's citizens need during this recession. Not!!!
Posted by The Oracle at April 11, 2009 12:39 PMParadox, one word: Fedco.
Posted by lambert strether at April 11, 2009 03:33 PMT2,
Instead of facing the reality that Obama is spending more money than he can finance under his currently proposed spending. I am not a GOP apologist. I am not opposed to rolling back all of the Bush tax cuts. I like fiscal responsibility. We definitely didn't see any under Bush. Unfortunately, we are seeing even less under Obama.
I think it is naive to be excited about a couple bucks in your paycheck when our government is putting us in such levels high levels of debt. Sounds like you are one of thos folks that feels proud of themseleves for putting $200 in their savings account while simultaneously racking up $10,000 in credit card debt.
Posted by Tex at April 11, 2009 03:58 PMSeeds of Change http://www.seedsofchange.com/
Seed Savers Exchange, http://www.seedsavers.org/
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, http://rareseeds.com/
These are where my wife usually orders seeds from. We'd both agree that the extra cost for these seeds are worth it but do your homework first. Make sure the varieties of seeds you want are developed for your area (or have a green house/cold frame setup handy.)
Happy gardening.
Posted by Jolly Sapper at April 12, 2009 06:54 PM