Tax Damaging Choices, Not Beneficial Behavior

No Medved, the government should not be involved in taxing anyone's choices. You may have left the Democratic party but you never stopped being a liberal busybody who has the uncontrollable need to control other people's lives. If Darwin and the free market consequences of stupid behavior aren't enough to dissuade fools from harming themselves then government force, and taxation is force, will not remedy the situation. Every time the government regulates individual choices there are always huge unintended consequences. Drug use is discouraged in the extreme by fines and imprisonment. Not only has drug use not been eliminated but tens of thousands of people have died in gang wars over drug turf. High cigarette taxes have provided...