Re:Any tax revolt is a good one. (Score 1)

I mean, they raise taxes on cigarettes, and are suddenly horrified to find that people do not buy cigarettes in New York. Now, what do you think the enlightened liberals do up there? Do you think they set the tax at a more reasonable level? No... they call out the cops and pass even -more- laws designed to try and ban people from cigarettes from out of state.

Hmm, I would think that it is good thing if people quit smoking? Maybe they didn't want to collect more money with this tax, what if they tried to decrease smoking? Price is one way to alter peoples behaviour.

But I'm from Finland, the promised land of progressive taxing (where mixture of socialism and capitalism actually works), so I guess I'm a bit biased ;-)