said by elwoodblues:How does cracking down on smoking increase revenue? I'd love to know how you came to that conclusion. have you been studying the discredited laffer curve again?
No, since I don't sit around and smoke weed all day and work for a living, my brain works well enough to know "this is how society works". Let me connect the dots as simply as possible...
Fining people = collecting revenue = ...collecting revenue.
Yea, I don't know how that wasn't simple to begin with.
We also keep those tobacco police employed as well, so that's good. More government jobs and more revenue by fining people in private areas.
A truck driver doing a long haul from Florida thinks he can drive into our country and have a smoke while he drive? Hah, cash cow right there.