[elkfersupper]

How come the pro-smoking people who post the tax charts don't get this. They always say THEY are the ones paying the taxes!!

That's done to show the primary targets, not the secondary ones, like yourself.

[paulat]

That's done to show the primary targets, not the secondary ones, like yourself.

...but...okay...we've absorbed a lot of their tax.

[paulat]

That's done to show the primary targets, not the secondary ones, like yourself.

Sorry to belabor, elk..but here's my question:

Say you make a widget. Do you pass on the cost of the cigarette in that widget price? I can see that with gasoline (to transport the widget)...but I'm not quite getting the cig analogy.

If I choose not to buy caviar...I am not spending my discretionary dollars on caviar...and I am not paying the caviar tax.

If I buy bread...that is more essential...so I AM paying for the gas tax, etc., that is incurred in getting it to me.

Sorry if I am pushing this out...but I do want to understand.