Americans are starting to get to know Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
It’s not a flattering picture.
And Tucker Carlson revealed the one thing Tim Walz hates more than anything.
Tucker Carlson slams Tim Walz’s nicotine taxes as an attack on masculinity
Tim Walz’s line that Donald Trump and J.D. Vance need to “mind their own d**** business” continues to haunt the Democrat ticket.
Walz clearly believes that ethos only applies to abortion on demand.
Tucker Carlson and comedian Dave Smith slammed Walz for wanting the government to make it their business on a whole range of personal behavior.
Carlson was especially worked up about Walz proposing a 33 percent tax increase on nicotine products that cost more than $4 per pack and a 95 percent sales tax on vaping devices.
Carlson argued raising taxes on nicotine was a way to punish Americans with elevated levels of testosterone.
“They’re afraid of testosterone and they want to identify who’s got it in abundance and they want to isolate and punish those people. It’s why they’re against nicotine. That’s why Walz raise the taxes on nicotine pouches for their — of course, they’re not carcinogens. There’s no evidence, by the way, that nicotine is a carcinogen. It’s not that we know of. It’s all a lie!” Carlson stated.
Carlson claimed Democrats like Walz want to create financial penalties for nicotine use because it’s associated with elevated testosterone levels.
“And what they hate about nicotine is it raises testosterone levels, even suppress that fact, that’s a fact — on Google. Google nicotine and testosterone and see how many results it takes you to get to the core truth, which is, yes, nicotine use raises testosterone levels. Man. It is way, way down. And that’s not an accident. They’re afraid of testosterone,” Carlson continued.
Democrat Party hypocrisy on display
Carlson’s guest, Dave Smith, admitted that increasing taxes on nicotine products works as fewer people smoke than ever before.
But Smith wondered why the government sought to punish some unhealthy behaviors and encouraged others.
Smith cited the number of fast food restaurants across the country that serve high fat meals which are associated with obesity and heart disease.
“I go all throughout this country and like, yeah, people don’t smoke as much as they used to. But everywhere you go, it’s just Arby’s, McDonald’s, Burger King …” Smith began.
“It’s disgusting,” Carlson interjected.
Smith argued there was clearly something else going on because if Tim Walz and other Democrats were worried about health, they wouldn’t limit their attempts to use the tax code to influence behavior to just smoking.
“You know, it’s like — it’s not like health is really the concern here, so what is actually the concern?” Smith wondered.
“Oh, so you don’t have a problem with people being lethargic and obese. You have a problem with them smoking cigarettes. So what explains that?” Smith asked.
