Obesity Lawsuits
TN Gov. Bredesen signed into law a bill that prevents obese people from suing the fast food industry. This is ironic because of our tobacco suits. See, our legislature in its infinite wisdom began banking on the tobacco money. They funded programs and this and that, apparently unaware the cash inflow from the settlement was only temporary.
Suddenly, they had all these programs that they couldn’t pay for. So, they start yammering on about at income tax. And most folks said No to that. Instead, they raised the sales tax to 9.25%. Heaven forbid that they, say, not spend $600K on renovating a golf course or something like that. Losers.
May 18th, 2004 at 9:02 pm
That was sad, wasn’t it?
Before the settlement: this money will be used to care for the victims of tobacco-related illneses.
After the settlement: tobacco-related who? We can spend money without raising taxes? Four more years! Four more years!