Tyrannical on 27 March 2009
| FaRmLaNd said: Rich people take drugs too. |
Yup, and that $3 a pack of smokes must be a huge deterrent to rich people.
People would be outraged if a law was passed that said "poor people are not allowed to buy alcohol or tobacco", yet the sin tax tries to do the same thing.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
