Stupidest Legislation Ever?
Certainly not the most evil, but just the plain dumbest? Sullivan details how governments ban the safer e-cigarettes but leave the much more dangerous real ones on the market here.
Libertarians, My Libertarians!
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
For some reason I refuse to believe that it was only the anti-smoking groups lobbying for this.
ReplyDeleteYes, I can well imagine groups whose interest is tied to tobacco-cultivation might lobby against this as well!
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DeleteA few years ago we had these ads in Ohio saying something like, "cigarettes, cigars and smokeless tobacco are taxed very highly to dissuade usage, how can we sit back and watch these e-cig users, roll-your-own tobacco users and snus users skate by without paying their fair share", or something like that.
Anyhow, it turned out that it was an anti-smoking group that funded it, and wouldn't you know it that this "anti-smoking" group was funded by a particular tobacco company. Incidentally, the group that funded it was formed due to a particular court case and subsequent legislation some years back that dictated tobacco companies must fund anti-smoking efforts.
Apparently, people make a pretty decent living doing this.