The ability to tax such new revenue streams is enticing for state and city officials dealing with post-pandemic economic upheaval, said Richard C. Auxier, principle policy associate with the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, a think tank.

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  • zed_proclaimer [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    Yep same with smoking cigarettes tbh. How many kids have to grow up with increased rates of cancer because their parents smoke in the house and cars and around them?

    Millions. Millions of children with cancer and deformities for a drug that fucking sucks and doesn’t even do anything cool

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      3 months ago

      Of all the treat defenders I’ve had to argue with over time, few are worse than the smoking apologists.

      Offline, in person, being told that I can’t “objectively prove” that any particular cigarette will cause lung cancer to a clearly addicted but in denial smoking enjoyer was always frustrating.

      One such person that I knew for decades died of lung cancer. In his mid-late thirties. And months before that, his doctor told him he had the overall vitals of a eighty year old man and to please stop smoking. He laughed it off, right in front of me… with a horridly rattly cough. desolate