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I don't have any particular thing to link, I just hear about this restriction or that getting passed, now and then.  But what I just wondered is...

If so many people are against the tobacco companies, disapproving of their products and marketing methods, why don't they, as a group, start buying up stock and get an interest in the company to where they actually have a voice in the decision making process?  Seems like it would be faster than protesting forever and bribing politicians faster than the tobacco companies can.

I should throw this on the front page and move that mean ol "poor people don't contribute much to the economy" post down a bit.

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Why should they put their own money on the line when they can get the government to do it for them?
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Why should they put their own money on the line when they can get the government to do it for them?

Jackpot.  It's the same slogan that got Homer Simpson elected to sanitation commissioner, "Can't someone else do it?"

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Yeah I knew the answer I just like to get it out there.

I would be especially amused if, once they were invested in the company, they decided they actually wanted to make money and they changed their minds about things.

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