you can choose to smoke or not to smoke. If the government banned that, you’d be going off about your liberties. A lot of cities have taxed the shit out of cigarettes and prohibit smoking indoors or public parks etc in the interest of public health. You can choose to smoke or not to smoke, you can’t fucking choose to start or stop a pandemic. You certainly aren’t going to tax it either.
as for the notion that politicians are happy about this? Are you serious? Really, outside of oan, what fringe aspect of society do you get this from? Newsmax? Even fox isn’t that absurd? Are democrats intergalactic lizard people too? Jesus. How the fuck does record unemployment, and the impending economic doomsday that has yet to hit benefit any politician? We haven’t even begun to see how crazy this will be? Once the mortgage forbearances, credit cards, loans, etc expire and people start foreclosing at record numbers with no jobs to return to, how does that benefit the politicians? How do they look good when the banks come begging for another bailout and people are rioting in the streets? Please Mr. Kudlow, explain this to me.
also, I find it so interesting that you who praises free market has an issue with you the guy who went from an idea about a modest online book store to literally the richest man in the world. Does your idea of free markets have a cap on success? You can only be so mad at this guy for exploiting America’s idea of a free market just like everyone else.