I agree with all the issues that have been discussed especially about following the constitution. Some of our programs that we have go against the constitution and Demogratic party knows that we have some programs that were created and worked around the constitution. People don’t understand what they original constitution ment and what it means now. Everyone has their own way of understanding the constitution. The government has to much power and made to many laws against the constitution I don’t agree with for example, weed should be allowed to be used in medicines but since it is illegal to have it know one get use in medicine. It helps relax people of what I have been told by older people. At one time it was legal but not now. Also taxing everything. Making taxes higher isn’t going to solve anything it just makes things worse and more expensive. Try lowering taxes. Once you would gain more business and business would have a chance to grow which creates more job opportunities. Try thinking before reacting.
This letter was in todays (June 16, 2008) Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Congratulations, Legislature, on the double standards
Let’s hear it for the Pennsylvania Legislature. We can no longer say it doesn’t care for the people, and Senate Bill 246 proves it: by banning smoking in more than 90 percent of Pennsylvania’s public places and work areas (”Anti-Smoking Measure to Take Effect in 90 Days,” June 14). This carefully crafted piece of legislation protects the public from the dangers of secondhand smoke, while banishing smokers to casinos, some hotels and taverns that meet other government requirements.
Are there no legislators left who believe in freedom? What gives the government the right to tell a business owner who he can serve? Or how his business should be run? If our elected officials wish to run a business, may I suggest they start one and try to manage it according to the rules and regulations they have imposed? What can we expect next, “No smokers need apply” signs in windows?
I don’t understand the double standard. Harrisburg uses the tax revenue from cigarettes to fund government programs. In turn, the Legislature punishes the activity it needs to encourage to keep programs going. If secondhand smoke and smoking itself are dangerous activities that drive up health-care costs, would we be better served to just eliminate it altogether?
Make it illegal to manufacture, sell or smoke tobacco products in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. That should drive down the cost of health care. Once that is accomplished, the leadership in Harrisburg could then start to concentrate on the tragic effects of secondhand alcoholic beverage drinking. This could be done slowly, say by implementing a 10 percent drink tax, then …
I agree with all the issues that have been discussed especially about following the constitution. Some of our programs that we have go against the constitution and Demogratic party knows that we have some programs that were created and worked around the constitution. People don’t understand what they original constitution ment and what it means now. Everyone has their own way of understanding the constitution. The government has to much power and made to many laws against the constitution I don’t agree with for example, weed should be allowed to be used in medicines but since it is illegal to have it know one get use in medicine. It helps relax people of what I have been told by older people. At one time it was legal but not now. Also taxing everything. Making taxes higher isn’t going to solve anything it just makes things worse and more expensive. Try lowering taxes. Once you would gain more business and business would have a chance to grow which creates more job opportunities. Try thinking before reacting.
This letter was in todays (June 16, 2008) Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Congratulations, Legislature, on the double standards
Let’s hear it for the Pennsylvania Legislature. We can no longer say it doesn’t care for the people, and Senate Bill 246 proves it: by banning smoking in more than 90 percent of Pennsylvania’s public places and work areas (”Anti-Smoking Measure to Take Effect in 90 Days,” June 14). This carefully crafted piece of legislation protects the public from the dangers of secondhand smoke, while banishing smokers to casinos, some hotels and taverns that meet other government requirements.
Are there no legislators left who believe in freedom? What gives the government the right to tell a business owner who he can serve? Or how his business should be run? If our elected officials wish to run a business, may I suggest they start one and try to manage it according to the rules and regulations they have imposed? What can we expect next, “No smokers need apply” signs in windows?
I don’t understand the double standard. Harrisburg uses the tax revenue from cigarettes to fund government programs. In turn, the Legislature punishes the activity it needs to encourage to keep programs going. If secondhand smoke and smoking itself are dangerous activities that drive up health-care costs, would we be better served to just eliminate it altogether?
Make it illegal to manufacture, sell or smoke tobacco products in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. That should drive down the cost of health care. Once that is accomplished, the leadership in Harrisburg could then start to concentrate on the tragic effects of secondhand alcoholic beverage drinking. This could be done slowly, say by implementing a 10 percent drink tax, then …
JOHN G. PARKS
Pleasant Hills