Comments on: Rush Limbaugh on Ohio Redirecting Funds from the Tobacco Settlement

By: Rosie

Rosie — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:55:37 +0000

It will also, by design, get addicted to casino taxes/money.

By: Mark McNally

Mark McNally — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:42:56 +0000

So now we need to smoke to keep the economy going?

This state is addicted to tobacco tax revenue.

By: Matt N.

Matt N. — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:12:11 +0000

It was an agreement among 46 states, between those states’ attorney generals and the tobacco industries. Such an agreement would need the consent of Congress via the Compact Clause. It also encroaches on federal power by regulating interstate commerce beyond the jurisdiction of any individual state. At the time, Congress rejected a similar measure.

And it was awful how it forced states to join the compact, since smokers in EVERY STATE would have to pay for the settlement, but a state wouldn’t receive and of the settlement if it didn’t join the unconstitutional compact.

So in the name of preventing cancer, we encouraged a different type of cancer inflicted on society by trial lawyers.

By the way, it is lovely to have an antagonist on my website. If you get more annoying, you will be banned, Nope.

By: Nope.

Nope. — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:32:39 +0000

Heh, I would like for you to articulate a legal argument for the unconstitutionality of the settlement. This should be fun to read.

By: Paul Gatlinburg

Paul Gatlinburg — Mon, 12 May 2008 05:56:19 +0000

I thought it was Jay Hottinger, a Republican, that came up with this idea. How is that liberals fault?

By: Ben k

Ben k — Mon, 12 May 2008 05:00:42 +0000

I agree with your premise…….but since they got the money they should use it for what it was designated for.