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Let the market decide
May 8, 2009 by Anonymous, 28 weeks 4 days ago
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The free market ensures that there will be exactly as many non-smoking bars as people want. Everyone wins!
This is such a no-brainer it defies comparison.
If there was such a demand for non-smoking bars, why wasn't there plenty of them to begin with, instead of having to mandate that they all become smoke free?
Because that isn't what the majority of the people who go to bars want, that's why.
In Iowa, the Democrats just imposed a smoking ban on all bars, while leaving the state owned, cash-cow casinos exempt from the ban.
I'm not making this up. They said, with a straight face, that they don't think the smoking ban will hurt the bar business -- while at the same time exempting the casinos from the same law. And so they left themselves WIDE OPEN for a lawsuit which is being filed by the bar owners association, citing the unconstutionality of the smoking ban and the casino exemption.
Democrats: What a bunch of boobs!
What a bunch of boobs!