Public health groups back Obama’s 94-cent cigarette tax hike

The Hill ^ | September 25, 2013 | Ben Goad

[q_an_a]

if the grass roots wanted to realy get some votes, they would work to cancel al the stupid taxes on cig - nobody care and the money does not go for healthcare or research

[kaehurowing]

It’s for the chilluns, future sons of Obama.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Cigarette taxes are already so high they are causing many people to quit. Hence the funding for this new program will be self-terminating.

Won’t be long till they come back and hit us up with an income tax hike “for the children”.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

“Taken together, these two measures would help ensure a future of smart, healthy kids nationwide and in every state,” according to the report, released Wednesday by a coalition of nine public health and legal groups.

Drango's Dragons ride again! Vincent DiMarco will be pleased.

Nanny State PING!

[cripplecreek]

Didn’t they already hike tobacco taxes for the chilluns through SCHIP?

[kaehurowing]

It’s for the chilluns, future sons of Obama.

[apillar]

Public health groups back Obama’s 94-cent cigarette tax hike

So does the growing black market in cigarettes smuggled in from China....

[MrB]

This rather begs a question -
since this will affect the EBT crowd disproportionately,
will they now allow cigs to be bought on EBT?

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[nickcarraway]

If we are making the government dependent on revenue for cigarettes, doesn’t that incent them to keep people smoking?

[Dr. Sivana]

President Obama’s plan to raise the federal cigarette tax by 94 cents a pack would put 2 million low and middle-income kids through preschool, a new report has concluded.

From the NY Post

Cig-tax hike creates total drag on sales

ALBANY — Sales of taxed cigarettes have plummeted a staggering 27 percent statewide since the highest cigarette tax in the nation took hold in July, a Post analysis has found.

Law-abiding cigarette dealers have sold an average of 30 million packs of smokes in each of the last four months — some 11 million fewer than before Gov. Paterson and lawmakers raised the state tax on cigarettes to $4.35 a pack in a scramble to close a massive budget gap.

[JRandomFreeper]

They can't tax the tobacco I grow in my own back yard.

/johnny

[tx_eggman]

Keep it up morons ... you’ll have turf wars in Compton to see who will control the black market trading.

[apillar]

Didn’t they already hike tobacco taxes for the chilluns through SCHIP?

LoL! Yep. One of the first laws Obama signed. I remember it because my next door neighbor who is a heavy smoker and voted for Obama because he bought the line that "we needed a change" was rather irate that the first thing Obama did was raise the price of his smokes. All I could do was laugh and remind him he got the "change" he voted for...

[CitizenUSA]

Where in the US Constitution does it give the president the power to tax? Forgive me, but did Congress actually write a law that surrendered this power to President Obama? I’m being serious. What’s the legal justification for him to do this?

(I know. I know. Laws are for schmucks these days, but sometimes it pays to at least give the appearance a president is following the law.)

[cripplecreek]

2300% increase in the tax on loose tobacco if I recall.

[OldNavyVet]

I'm no longer a smoker, but ours is supposedly a "free" nation. So my motto is ...

Grow your own and roll your own.

[massgopguy]

But if you prevent 1.7 million NEW smokers. Who will pay for the children after them? “QUIT SMOKING! BLEEP THE CHILDREN!” BTW, this is why they’re going crazy over E-Cigarettes.

[DoughtyOne]

BLACK MARKET

Nice job Barry...