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...Thornton points out, most Americans are becoming more conscious of the risks of substance abuse. Instead of filterless Camels and hard liquor, more people are opting for filtered low-tar cigarettes and light beer. It would benefit those who do use drugs if they were able to freely purchase less potent and less long-lasting drugs whose quality (and danger) could be controlled, if they were legal...
Also included were provisions to stem Medicaid spending, open some liquor stores on Sundays, and provide guidelines for placing children in the homes of gays...
Faced with a projected 1991 deficit of $3 billion when he took office in January, Florio rejected the back-door approach of relying on increased "user fees" and "sin taxes" (on liquor and cigarettes) so popular among his peers. Instead he became the only Governor of this read-my-lips era to embrace the discarded notion of a progressive tax, which hits New Jersey's wealthiest residents hardest by doubling the bite on their income...
...behavior. "If you don't drink, smoke or drive a car, you're a tax evader," quips Tom Foley, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Taxes on gasoline, cigarettes and liquor, as well as license fees and telephone surcharges, have proved to be the easiest way to get money from voters. Although they are more regressive than income taxes, they give people a feeling that they can control the amount of tax they pay by limiting the amount of goods or services they consume. Levies on alcohol and cigarettes can be portrayed as appropriately discouraging bad habits -- Florida Governor...
...century. The fugitive from Minsk becomes the thief of London and the prisoner of Newgate. Deported, he turns into the con man of the Klondike. This ultimate survivor begets 27 unacknowledged offspring, plus Aaron, who begets the predatory Bernard and the doomed and mysterious Solomon. The brothers beget a liquor business that makes them the intimates of gangsters during Prohibition and the cynosure of politicians ever after. Their descendants become various refractions of the founder: vulgar, sensitive, avaricious, undirected, lost...