Forums > Living in Kunming > Nationwide ban on smoking ! Read again what I wrote. I admitted I am a smoker. I did not defend smoking. I only said I liked to smoke.
You, on the other hand, projected your opinion and biases on folks that smoke. You claim correlations that are ridiculous because with your limited intelligence it is the best you can do.
Can you grasp this concept, in the words of Sylvester Stone: "Different strokes for different folks."
Give it a break. If the smoke annoys you, put a plastic bag over your head and tie it tightly.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Nationwide ban on smoking ! Guess you have it all figured out. No logic or science, but an abundance of halfassed know it all nannyism. Oh, save us from those that know better.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Nationwide ban on smoking ! You really ought to bone up on the concept of utility. Your arrogance does not include your ability to decide what, or how useful, any thing is or is not useful to me.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Nationwide ban on smoking ! As a smoker, I agree smoking has no utility to nonsmokers. But I reject idiot nonsmokers claiming smoking has no utility to me.
Fifteen years ago, tobacco taxes were about 13% of China's tax revenues. Today, tobacco is less than 10% of revenues. I believe the China tobacco tax revenues exceed the Individual Income Tax revenues. I also believe the total Chinese government's spending on all health care is less the tobacco tax revenues.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Nationwide ban on smoking ! In the 1970/80s, California politicians decided an increase in tobacco taxes was called for to offset the increased social costs of treating smoker's health problems. The question turned to just how much the tax on a pack of cigarettes should be increased. Economists and number crunchers were called in to study the effects of a tax increase would have on smokers and tax revenue.
The results:
1) A tax increase of $1.00 per pack would cause many smokers to quit and total cigarette tax revenue would fall significantly.
2) A tax increase of $0.75 per pack would cause a significant number of smokers to quit but the tax revenue remain the same.
3) A tax increase of $0.50 per pack would result in few smokers quitting and the total cigarette tax revenue would increase significantly.
Which option do you think the politicians put into effect?
The striking attire of Yunnan's Yao women
发布者Peter99, I concur with your praise of Mr. Goodman. Not so keen on the earrings.
The striking attire of Yunnan's Yao women
发布者Thanks Mr. Goodman. I have a few photos of ladies in the pointed hats. Tried to find out, with no luck, about them. Very interesting piece.
Earth's budget deficit at 160%, hope stems from trees
发布者@lemon lover:
Not only conspiracy theorists use BS. I stumbled onto Koire by following links of web 'authorities' who deny both the Tiananmen incident AND the holocaust in Germany. Go figure.
Somehow, progressive think morphs into antisemitic think into help the poor of the world by taking from 'rich' countries to give to... well I don't know who gets the wealth.
The Agenda 21 approach seems follow socialist wealth redistribution but skirts the central planning model. That is, until the central plan is replaces by Agenda 21 and implementation is by the masses. A horse is a horse, of course, of course.
So far, as I read Agenda 21, Koire's "inventory and control all land, all water, all minerals, all plants, all animals, all construction, all means of production, all energy, all education, all information, and all human beings in the world," is what Agenda 21 is all about. A horse is a horse, of course, of course.
Earth's budget deficit at 160%, hope stems from trees
发布者Glenn Beck? Is he still around?
Found the UN document here:
sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/Agenda21.pdf
I guess getting to the name calling is a lot easier than reading the 350 pages of Agenda 21. Saves time and thinking for sure. And, if you read the right snippets on the right websites to learn what you are suppose to think, you get to have your own ideological biases reinforced.
Earth's budget deficit at 160%, hope stems from trees
发布者Yup, that's her, the lady that objects to private property being seized to create off street bike lanes. She describes her self as "[I've] been a Democrat since I was registered to vote . . . I'm anti-war, I'm gay, I'm [a] feminist." Not so much a right wing conspiracy nut I think.
Reading Agenda 21 now.