The only place the money is coming from is from the tobacco tax, and we don't have enough smokers to make up the difference. It's only been an abiding comfort to tens of millions, lifted the elderly poor out of grinding poverty and administered at a cost far below that of private industry. I must give credit to the criminal alliance in our Wht House, who are lousy, corrupt, incompetent, insufficient, idiotic, friggin crazy, about all things of statehood. The only way I am going to avoid...

No one knows exactly how much money changes hands in the moonshine trade, but it's certainly enough for the missing taxes to make a difference: In 2000, an ATF investigation busted one Virginia store that sold enough raw materials to moonshiners to make 1.4 million gallons of liquor, worth an estimated $19. One of the bootleggers faces up to 35 years in prison for his crimes: making the brew, selling it, and not paying taxes on the proceeds. Back in college, the Explainer had friends who...

When the Smokeout started 30 years ago as a way for people to stop using tobacco - even for a single day - a lot more people lit up regularly, about one in three adults. Joseph Hospital announced that employees, patients and visitors would be prohibited from smoking on any of its properties - including parking lots - starting in January. The risks that smoking poses to a person's health are widely known - particularly its contribution to heart disease, cancer, stroke and lung disease - but...

According to Wendy Bjornson, co-director of the 16-year-old Smoking Cessation Center at Oregon Health & Science University, smokers are well aware of the health risks of what they do and are constantly under pressure from friends and family to quit, for the sake of their own health and for those around them. According to Wendy Bjornson, co-director of the 16-year-old Smoking Cessation Center at Oregon Health & Science University, smokers are well aware of the health risks of what they do...

Alan Greenspan used similar language in a recentinterview with CBS News -- right down to his own reference to a "tsunami of an extraordinarily large increase in retirees. In particular, I wondered whether officers on the street thought theywould know the difference, if they were led by the mayor rather than the sheriff. Republican councillor Marilyn Pfisterer wondered whether some of the animosity toward candidates could be traced to "a general disillusionment with politics" A couple of...