[erikm88]

I know for a fact that some of it went to the the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE). I worked for a state agency at the time the money was being doled out, and my bosses were putting together technical proposals for network designs and what not (I worked for a non-profit statewide Internet Service Provider). I asked where we were getting funding and he said that we're getting part of the tobacco settlement....

How do you like them apples??

[StarCMC]

Just more proof of the lies being told to get hands in our wallets, IMO.

[SheLion]

I know for a fact that some of it went to the the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE). I worked for a state agency at the time the money was being doled out, and my bosses were putting together technical proposals for network designs and what not (I worked for a non-profit statewide Internet Service Provider). I asked where we were getting funding and he said that we're getting part of the tobacco settlement....

How do you like them apples??

I like it just as much as I did when I found out Maine is using the smoker's tax dollars to sponsor 5 race car teams in Maine and various tracks across the state!

And I was really steamed when I found out Maine had given cigarette tax dollars to an old woman in Ellsworth to plant a garden in the center of town!

Mass used $175,000 cigarette tax money to build a huge golf course.  That money was supposed to go to the kids and sick uninsured smokers should there be any.  But this money turned the lawmakers into gluttons.

Now that they have their pet programs established, they need more money to cover what the taxes were supposed to be spent for in the first place!

I know for a fact that some of it went to the the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE). I worked for a state agency at the time the money was being doled out, and my bosses were putting together technical proposals for network designs and what not (I worked for a non-profit statewide Internet Service Provider). I asked where we were getting funding and he said that we're getting part of the tobacco settlement....

How do you like them apples??

I like it just as much as I did when I found out Maine is using the smoker's tax dollars to sponsor 5 race car teams in Maine and various tracks across the state!

And I was really steamed when I found out Maine had given cigarette tax dollars to an old woman in Ellsworth to plant a garden in the center of town!

Mass used $175,000 cigarette tax money to build a huge golf course.  That money was supposed to go to the kids and sick uninsured smokers should there be any.  But this money turned the lawmakers into gluttons.

Now that they have their pet programs established, they need more money to cover what the taxes were supposed to be spent for in the first place!