U.S. Senate Votes For Socialist Health Care For Kids

The L.A. Times reports:

Defying President Bush, the Senate on Thursday voted decisively to expand a popular health insurance program for children of the working poor and to more than double tobacco taxes to pay for it.

Senators of both parties banded together in the 68-31 vote for the State Children's Health Insurance Program — 18 Republicans joined all 48 of the chamber's Democrats who voted and both of its independents. That's one vote more than the 67 needed to override Bush's threatened veto.

Under the Senate plan, smokers would foot the bill for covering 3 million children more than the 6 million already covered: The federal cigarette tax would jump from 39 cents a pack to $1, and the tax would reach $10 for luxury cigars with a wholesale price of $19 or more apiece.<

Your "luxury" is their money to be plundered.