Is there no end to the nanny state?

By Matthew Hayward

In WA. State legislators are seriously considering rasing the minimum age for tobacco purchases to 21 years old.

The bill in question just passed, "The House Health Care & Wellness Committee," if you ask, that sounds like a committee that should not exist. (Link)

"A poll found that 65 percent of voters are for of raising the smoking and vaping age from 18 to 21." Do any of these people polled think kids wait until they are 18 to start smoking? This poll proves two things;

People are stupid.
Society believes responsibility is not a personal matter but a public one.

This kind of protectionism is the opposite of a free society. I have a better solution. End age limits and regulation of controlled substances and let people be free to make bad decisions, and when they do, let's let them suffer the consequences of those decisions.

It's time to depend on parenting and common sense. And not to worry, if a child doesn't have good parents but has common sense, their parents actually present an excellent role model of what not to be. I have met several very successful people with horrible parents; that motivated them to succeed.

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