An Idea So Dumb Only Congress Could Think of It

OK, you want to fund a program that is supposed to provide health care for children, how do you pay for it? If you are the federal government raise the tax on something that you are trying to get people to quit doing, in this case, quit smoking. Let's see raise the tax, people quit smoking, less comes in to pay for the program. Then what?, raise the tax again. ETC. This would make Wonderland seem sane to Alice in comparison.

Think about it.

Still not sure how dumb an idea this (as well as the other various state programs funded by cigrarette taxes) is?

So, where do you get the money for this from when there are so few smokers left, either from dying off or because the tax is so high that no 1 smokes any more? & how about who pays for all those medical expenses that are paid for by those smokers who didn't quit?

& this is who we expect to come up with a sane solution to rising medical costs? I have my doubts.