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Bill Introduced to Further Raise Federal Tax on Pipe Tobacco
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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 85787"><p>I am betting that tobacco tax increases will only get worse. As more and more people quit smoking, tax revenues are bound to decrease, so congress and state legislatures will just keep on adding more taxes. One of these days they will have to learn that you can only make up so much of that defecit before you destroy the entire industry.</p><p></p><p>Furthermore, the problem is not strictly partisan. Utah Senator Christensen, a Republican, unveiled a plan last week to increase that states cigarette tax to $1.30 per pack. Charlie Crist, Republican governor of Florida, signed into law a tax increase of $1 a pack in May of this year. Before John McCain's failed run for the presidency, he supported higher taxes and tighter regulations on tobacco. Earlier this year, the Republican governor of Mississippi signed into law a 277% tax increase on a pack of cigarettes.</p><p></p><p>The only thing we can do about this nonsense (other than bitch and moan) is to vote for people who we hope will not jump on the tax increase bandwagon. Just because somebody belongs to a particular party is meaningless when it comes to tobacco taxes.</p><p></p><p>It's going to be an uphill fight all the way. JP is right, the majority of Americans don't mind higher tobacco taxes....why not? The majority of Americans don't smoke it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 85787"] I am betting that tobacco tax increases will only get worse. As more and more people quit smoking, tax revenues are bound to decrease, so congress and state legislatures will just keep on adding more taxes. One of these days they will have to learn that you can only make up so much of that defecit before you destroy the entire industry. Furthermore, the problem is not strictly partisan. Utah Senator Christensen, a Republican, unveiled a plan last week to increase that states cigarette tax to $1.30 per pack. Charlie Crist, Republican governor of Florida, signed into law a tax increase of $1 a pack in May of this year. Before John McCain's failed run for the presidency, he supported higher taxes and tighter regulations on tobacco. Earlier this year, the Republican governor of Mississippi signed into law a 277% tax increase on a pack of cigarettes. The only thing we can do about this nonsense (other than bitch and moan) is to vote for people who we hope will not jump on the tax increase bandwagon. Just because somebody belongs to a particular party is meaningless when it comes to tobacco taxes. It's going to be an uphill fight all the way. JP is right, the majority of Americans don't mind higher tobacco taxes....why not? The majority of Americans don't smoke it. [/QUOTE]
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