How High Will You Go...

I don't smoke, but the thought of an alcohol tax scares me a bit. Right now, many of my friends and I being unemployed or underpaid, gathering at someone's house with a few bottles of wine, or going to a cheap happy hour, is a relatively inexpensive form of entertainment for us. If they start overtaxing alcohol, we may have to learn to make moonshine.

We don't drink or smoke and we don't go to fast food restaurants regularly. But,if the prices get too high, we will definitely stop going! We can fix food at a lower price at home. May get down to butterbeans, fried potatoes and cornbread, but we will make it. My kids are the ones I worry about! Alabama is trying to pass a law for food not to be taxed. My husband said they would just add that tax to something else to get the revenue money. And I don't see how anyone can justify paying so much for cigarettes. It's like burning up your money.

Unfortunately for me, I have a few bad habits. I occasionally drink beer, and I smoke cigarettes on a regular basis. We actually started rolling our own cigarettes two years ago, and that has cut down on the amount we spend on smoking. I don't drink enough alcohol for it to really affect my budget, I just enjoy a drink or two every once in a while. I rarely eat fast food, just for the fact that I don't care to have other people handle my food. Gas is a totally different story. They can keep increasing the price because people have to go places. We have to go to work, we have to go to the doctor, and our children need to go to school. If tobacco and alcohol were to keep increasing in price, I could definetely live without them. But when my daughter needs medical attention, gas could be $20.00 a gallon and I would fill up to get her to the doctor or hospital.

I rarely eat fast food because I know it's bad for me. I've gone from 2 packs a day to less than half a pack so that's getting phased out. Spirits are very expensive so I don't drink much anymore. Yes, they're taxing my bad habits to death!

I use very little gas, too. It's going up again even as the price of oil is going down!

I'd have to say that the price of cigs are driving me to try to quit...even though it seems that the more I think about it, the more I seem to smoke. I don't know why that is...I used to get them very cheap up until I found out that it is a felony to buy cigs online, so now I am spending a fortune. My meds are actually my highest bill & I cannot go without them!

I'll tell ya what been getting higher, its satellite tv, our bill was a little more this month, and now that everything's going digital, your either forced to pay the higher prices or buy a little box that lets you get the channels. I personally think that if I have to, I will cancel my subscription with them and buy the little box for my tv, its getting expensive. You would think that when they go digital they'll be getting more customers and it would help the prices go down not up, thats my gripe for the day..lol. Thankfully I don't smoke or drink either, I do eat fast food, but not as much as I watch tv..haha.

The sin tax as it's called. It makes things we want but don't need very expensive. Where I live beer is sold by the can. I buy the cheep stuff at $1.50 a can. I picked up 2 cans last week. I used on for a pizza luncheon with a friend. We spit it. The other is still in my refrigerator. A happy meal at McDonald's is $8. I rarely buy it. I don't even know what a big mac or quarter pounder is. I know it's expensive. I don't buy it because of the calories. A kids meal is a normal adult portion calorie wise.

i do smoke but i don't drink & very seldom eat fast food. i don't know how high i'd go. have to cross that bridge when i get to it. i stay home most of the time but i'm going to have a few things i enjoy, smoking is one of them. i threaten all the time to have my cable cut back. all i have is extended basic & it's outrageous, there again tho, i never go to the movies or anywhere so u have to have a few pleasures along the way. my computer is soo much company to me i'd hate to have to do w/out it.

Hello twoey68.....very nice discussion, especially seeing how everything keeps going up by the pay checks.
I am with you, I don't drink or smoke and my husband and I rarely eat out at fast food. We may stop on our one trip into town a month, but if we didn't I sure wouldn't miss it. I would much rather have a peanut butter sandwich at hiome than some of that fast food they serve now a days. You never know what you're eating.
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I have no limits set in my mind as to how much I am willing to pay. I just go with the flow I do hope smokes don't fet to ten bucks a pack or it will be cheaper to take the trip down to Mexico and buy them there and bring them back