WE are the April Fools

America, come in close, I want to talk to you. (cue Glenn Beck style close up) I want you all to sit around the flag and lets have a real conversation. (cue Lou Dobb's backdrop) America, it's time that we shout from the highest of heights the question WHY?

Today starts the tax hikes on tobacco products to offset debts that both the nation and states have occurred due to poor money management, a dying economy and numerous other factors across the globe. And while many Americans are losing their jobs, and gas prices do their two dollar dance again, the obvious answer to our politicians is TAX THE PEOPLE!

TAX THE PEOPLE being the war cry, a small rumbling through out congress becomes, "Well, who do we tax?" And the quick, simple answer is, and always will be, the smokers. Why is that? Why is it the smokers who always get the short end of the stick? Wasn't tobacco a HUGE cash crop during those important early years of our nations history? Yet it is the tobacco industry that gets the logjammer.

First the tobacco industry is forced, and rightfully so, to pay people because they made you believe that smoking rat poison and other carcinogens are good for you and make you cool. Ok, that I understand. Then they make the industry pay for educational commercials as well as allow the TRUTH campaign to harass them. Fine, again, understandable. But lately, within the last couple years, whenever the nation or state needs money, they are automatically out taxing cigarettes. And on top of all of that, on top of taking more money out of these peoples pockets, they want to tell you that you can't smoke them anywhere. What kind of sense does that make, seriously?

Is it just me, or does this logic not make sense to anyone? If they accomplish their goal of getting everyone to stop smoking, who are they going to tax next? More taxes on condoms and birth control? Higher taxes on alcohol? All I'm saying is that this is HAS become way too much. If your going to single out a group of users, the least you could do is allow them to keep on keeping on. If your going to tax a product you should make that products usage more accessible, its simple economics.

Of course, this is all coming from a president who openly wrote that he did cocaine, then held an online town hall discussion and since a great number of people asked about legalization of marijuana, he scoffed at them and said "I guess that says something about our viewers" and we all went on our way too stupid to be insulted because we all want so bad to believe in "hope" and "change". So, we as a nation will let the highest power in the land keep kicking us around because he's articulate, charismatic, tells us change is coming, all while smiling at us and telling us "yes we can" do anything we want to do. Well, I want to smoke reasonably priced cigarettes in a bar, and I'm sure I'm not alone. But if we unite all we get is TAXED more. God bless America.