[Chancellor]

Quote by: Technosoul I cannot speak for Canada, and they no doubt are confused by now with what Chan ... said.

What's so confusing about saying that Canada is effectively a socialist country?

But the United States should be united and not different in each state concerning these important matters. Did they leave it up to each state to determine if cigarette sin taxes should be enforced or was it the House of Representives at the federal level. All movies have some sort of bad influence. Nudity, bad words, violence, people breaking the law, people drinking or acting stoned. Just don't allow kids under 18 years of age to have access to such subversive material.

The founding fathers created a constitutional government that put significant limits on the federal government. It really is up to each of the now 50 states to determine whether they should have sin taxes in their respective states (though, arguably, the 14th amendment put the same restrictions on the states that the Constitution puts on the federal government).

Now if I was like the anti-smoking guy and got lots of donations I could lobby washington and get those dumb laws amended that are preventing me from enacting those rules with our police department.

Or you could challenge the constitutionality of those laws in the Courts.

Or else we could tax Hollywood out of business so that they cannot promote all those bad things anymore.

The State of California is arguably free to do exactly that.

Parents should not have to play Big Brother without the help and the back up of government concerning those undersupervised kids who sneak around trying to get peaks at adult behavorism.

The only way the government can help parents is to keep its nose out of parental business and stop trying to usurp parental authority. It's the parents' job to supervise their children and dictate what their children may or may not do, watch, etc.

What if they grow up to be like us?

Gasp! What an outrage! How dare you suggest that children might actually do such a terrible thing! :) Of course, good parents would be pleased to have their children to be just like them.

Good grief, what if kids got abondoned at an airport and took it over, national security is at risk.

Maybe the kids would do a better job. :)

Pushing too much responsibility off on the parents will only lead to more abortions.

Abortion is a sign of a parent not carrying out her responsibility.

Why should parents spank kids for not following the rules when we pay the police to do it with billy clubs? It is clear that the government is better trained at torturing kids then parents.

What you call torture others call correction.

Rating the films just because someone lights up a cigarette will not remove the root cause which is that films can influence society because we are all copycats of the superstars. Better to go hog wild and pass a national law that kids cannot watch movies, DVD, or TV. As well as knotholes in walls and keyholes. (in case they see someone smoking on the other side).

Oh, yes, we soooooo need the government to protect us from ourselves! :)

By the way, I am only entertaining my self by advocating all this garbage. But if those big companies want to send me all that grant money, I don't mind selling out and preaching to people like those anti-smoking people do.

Your sarcasm is noted but what makes it so entertaining is that it isn't all that far from what some people actually want.