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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  2232 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Fucking businesses fucking up the fucking democratic process.

    I think I'm pretty consistent in my belief that what people do with and to their own body is their own business and government should stay the fuck out it.

Ain't nobody saying you can't drink soda. They're saying it should cost you more to drink soda. That's the fundamental basis of "sin tax" - if you want to drag down the general level of public health, you're going to pay into the public coffer. You've got an either-or thing: if Alabama wanted to tax abortions in order to pay for better sex ed, your average bleeding-heart liberal would jump all over that shit.

I pay extra for alcohol in WA state. That's annoying. Try and ban liquor? Now we've got a discussion. Taxes are not prohibitions, they're inhibitions and pretending otherwise is cloudy thinking at best.