Raise the cigarette tax and I will employ every method possible to evade this tax, all without quiting smoking. I'm tired of getting kicked in the face because my vice isn't politically correct.
I don't blame you a bit, and I don't smoke. I joking call smokers the "new lepers" of society. But they sure want your money to pay the bills.
The times we've met, I don't remember seeing you smoke. You could have been giving me cover!
If there were . . .
1) less exemptions and special taxing classes
2) a more accurate appraisal process
3) accountability in spending (anyone take a look at where and how the local school districts are spending money, i.e. football stadiums)
4) tax rollbacks where the tax rate has to roll back each year as much as the average appraisal rates go up
5) truth in taxation whereby any raise in local tax rates has to be clearly explained to voters and needs a supermajority of local officials to pass
THEN, we might have a chance of rational taxation