Thu Feb 16, 2012, 11:12 AM
Lionel Mandrake (2,993 posts)
Lance Armstrong campaigns for California cigarette tax measureLast edited Thu Feb 16, 2012, 11:17 AM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France champion and cancer survivor, gets behind California's Proposition 29, which would raise taxes on cigarettes to fund cancer research and other programs.
Lance Armstrong, seen in a 2011 file photo, plans to campaign for California's Proposition 29. The measure would tax a pack of cigarettes by $1 more to fund cancer research and other programs. Armstrong's Texas-based foundation has donated $1.5 million to the Yes on 29 campaign. (Damian Dovarganes, Associated Press / February 28, 2011) By Anthony York, Los Angeles Times
February 15, 2012, 8:44 p.m. Reporting from Sacramento— The proposal is simple: Raise taxes on cigarettes to pay for cancer research. The push for it is quintessentially Californian, melding celebrity salesmanship and the whims of state voters, who have increasingly been called on to decide key policy questions. The pitchman for Proposition 29, which will appear on the June ballot, is seven-time Tour de France champion and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong, who is asking voters to increase taxes on a pack of cigarettes by $1. On Wednesday, he announced a $1.5 million contribution from his Texas-based foundation to the Yes on 29 campaign. "We feel that Prop. 29 will save lives, stop kids from smoking and just may lead us to a cure," he told reporters in a conference call. Hooray for Lance Armstrong! Down with Philip Murderous and other companies in the teen-addiction business! Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lance-armstrong-20120216,0,1930495.story
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 Lance Armstrong campaigns for California cigarette tax measure (Original post) |
Lionel Mandrake | Feb 2012 | OP |
| xtraxritical | Feb 2012 | #1 | |
| Lionel Mandrake | Feb 2012 | #5 | |
| xxqqqzme | Feb 2012 | #6 | |
| stevenleser | Feb 2012 | #2 | |
| Lionel Mandrake | Feb 2012 | #16 | |
| LeftinOH | Feb 2012 | #3 | |
| progressoid | Feb 2012 | #10 | |
| Lionel Mandrake | Feb 2012 | #11 | |
| expatriate2mex | Feb 2012 | #14 | |
| Bonhomme Richard | Feb 2012 | #4 | |
| stopbush | Feb 2012 | #7 | |
| Lionel Mandrake | Feb 2012 | #17 | |
| SOS | Feb 2012 | #8 | |
| Lionel Mandrake | Feb 2012 | #13 | |
| truebrit71 | Feb 2012 | #9 | |
| DJ13 | Feb 2012 | #12 | |
| Honeycombe8 | Feb 2012 | #15 |
Response to Lionel Mandrake (Original post)
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 11:17 AM
xtraxritical (3,009 posts)
1. Lance Armstrong is looking for some free publicity
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and as you see he's getting it. There are already plenty of taxes on cigarettes that go for this purpose. I'm an ex-smoker, nonsmoker.
The guy should find a real job and stop annoying everyone.  |
Response to xtraxritical (Reply #1)
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 11:37 AM
Lionel Mandrake (2,993 posts)
5. Plenty of taxes on cigarettes?
Response to Lionel Mandrake (Reply #5)
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 11:52 AM
6. I don't know how it raises any significant
Response to Lionel Mandrake (Original post)
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 11:20 AM
stevenleser (13,292 posts)
2. OT, but everything you post is somehow better for your awesome handle
Response to stevenleser (Reply #2)
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 02:51 PM
Lionel Mandrake (2,993 posts)
16. I'm glad you like it.
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Peter George, Terry Southern, and Stanley Kubrick deserve all the credit, because they wrote the screenplay.
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Response to Lionel Mandrake (Original post)
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 11:26 AM
3. At some point, cheaper black-market smokes will become the norm..
Response to LeftinOH (Reply #3)
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 12:50 PM
progressoid (27,342 posts)
10. It already is a big problem.
Response to LeftinOH (Reply #3)
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 12:51 PM
Lionel Mandrake (2,993 posts)
11. According to the LA Times story, part of the money raised by Prop. 29
Response to Lionel Mandrake (Original post)
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 11:36 AM
Bonhomme Richard (7,835 posts)
4. Maybe a special tax on the chemical industry.
Response to Lionel Mandrake (Original post)
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 11:57 AM
stopbush (11,358 posts)
7. CA needs to chuck our referendum system and force our legislators to do their elected jobs.
Response to stopbush (Reply #7)
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 03:24 PM
Lionel Mandrake (2,993 posts)
17. Yes, our referendum system sucks.
Response to Lionel Mandrake (Original post)
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 12:49 PM
truebrit71 (16,912 posts)
9. Totally on board with this...
Response to Lionel Mandrake (Original post)
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 12:58 PM
12. Why do these tax schemes always try and increase the taxes by such a huge amount?
Response to Lionel Mandrake (Original post)
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 01:15 PM
Honeycombe8 (18,012 posts)
15. And then let's tax abortions to fund depression research on women, and then....
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