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From: brecht@sask.UUCP (Tim Brecht)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Re: New from the Campaign Trail
Message-ID: <471@sask.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 21-Oct-86 12:25:45 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 21 12:25:45 1986
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> In article <465@sask.UUCP> brecht@sask.UUCP (Tim Brecht) writes:
> ...
> >VOTER:	   When I buy cigarettes, I pay taxes on them.  That tax is my
> >	   license to smoke anywhere I damn well please!
> >
> >CANDIDATE: Well, that's certainly an interesting point of view.  I've
> >	   never heard that before.  ...
> 
> I don't know whether or not Tim supports this voter's viewpoint but I
> will just point out that even if a tax were a license, that wouldn't
> entitle one to do whatever they please. ...
> 
>   Donald Acton

No, I don't support this point of view, and neither did the candidate (who
was/is the Health Minister!), but we both thought it was rather amusing.
Let's face it, he was talking to some old guy from the boonies who had
smoked all his life.  Nobody ever said anything about it for decades; now
when he goes to the city, there are "No Smoking" signs all over the place,
and people are daring to tell him to extinguish his smokes.  Times are
changing, and he doesn't like it.  (Me, I like it.)

[By the way, the subject line should have said "News" rather than "New".
Sorry for the bad spelling.]

						Jim Tubman
						(From the account of
						 Tim Brecht)
						University of Saskatchewan