California Proposition 29 Would Fund Cancer Research
Yahoo! Contributor Network By Sylvia Cochran | Yahoo! Contributor Network – Tue, May 8, 2012
“If California voters approve the tobacco tax initiative Proposition 29 on June 5, the Golden State would take in $810 million annually, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.”
While Maw sat on her new handmade (soap-box like) wooden chair/seat in the back and watched/talked with Paw who was fertilizing and watering plants in the backyard, I decided to join her. She read her “Sample Ballot @ Voter Information Pamphlet while I did the same along with reading the Official Voter Information Guide for the California Presidential Primary Election on Tuesday, June 5, 2012.
As per my notes on 18:21 via the “Memo” app of my smart/cellphone, I rationalized about this particular proposition. If this proposition can do this to cigarettes and tobacco products, then surely other propositions can do this to gas/oil and petroleum products, too.
By further rationalizing, cigarettes are supposed to make people happy. I’ve read somewhere that the carbon dioxide from cigarettes is supposed to help certain entities breath better. In my recent readings about weird stuff, I’ve learned that cancer, thought harsh, is really a karmic debt.
Based on these two simple thoughts, I rationalized that it is NOT fair to take one’s happiness (cigarette) away with higher taxes to “pay off one’s (karmic) debt.” I believe there is a Biblical passage somewhere saying/stating that it is foolish to pay off someone’s debt or something like that.
Per two mailed material of the same shape and size, I am now reading an online website at: NO on 29 | Cancer Research is important but Prop. 29 is a flawed and poorly drafted measure. I’ve learned three major points: more bureaucracy without accountability or oversight; fine prints (“to correct problems in waste fraud or abuse”) can’t be changed for 15 years (which is something like severability, I think); and spending tax dollars outside California.
Again, cancer research sounds like a good idea but it is far from finding cures. In an instance, the cure for cancer (or any illnesses) will be done by God. As for controlling how people behave or forcing them to comply outright can be done by mandating/outlawing the use of cigarettes and tobacco products. But that’s not going to happen.
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