hello america!!! although pa gov tom wolf's budget is not set in stone (yet) (SEE IT HERE), it is just another reminder of why i didn't/couldn't/wouldn't cast my vote for him---i smoke cigarettes & wonder why an additional $1.00 per pack tax would be deemed fair---why just single out smoker's??? isn't that just another form of discrimination??? hell, everybody uses water so why not apply the $1.00 tax to water???
while i don't disagree with the negatives results of smoking (i wish i could stop), i don't think my gov't (on any level), has the right to impose a tax on my choice to smoke & not impose a tax on non-smoker's...from my way of thinking, that's akin to taxing an obese person for walking down main street & nobody else...
i don't know how many people of color (&/or people living around the national poverty line) that will ever visit the ppl center hockey arena for hockey---for that matter, i don't personally know of one black person that even talks about hockey---(i'm sure there are some somewhere) so, i don't support the plans for the tax raise to help pay off the debt...
as a person of color & an active voter, i just don't see where the tax raise would benefit people of color...
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