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Originally Posted by mcsluggo
there is not a direct causal relationship between smoking and any disease, just increase in probability. Your solution of denying future benefits is beggiing a litigation wet-dream, and would likely be overturned.
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This helps prove my point - if you can't establish a direct causal relationship between A and B, then you aren't justified in confiscating the private assets of an individual based on that assumption.
The prevailing "wisdom" since the at least New Deal is that the federal government has first right of refusal on OUR money. It should be that we tax personal income for only the most necessary infrastructure & services where justification is almost unquestionable.
If the ACLU was *really* concerned with civil liberties, they would be looking at the effect that the scores of tax credits in the federal tax code have on encouraging/discouraging certain individual behaviors & decisions.