[FrankR]

More of the libs unintended consequences at work...they sue the tobacco firms, mount a huge "quit smoking" campaign, and outlaw smoking everywhere, then think that taxing it is going to save their butts.

I would almost bet that once he gets this tobacco tax passed, and they see it's not filling their "void", they will either forget about getting rid of the food tax, or reinstate it.

That's the biggest fear of the "fair tax"...the fear that they will change to it, and then re-add the regular income tax to it.

Plus, for the state it's a lose-lose situation...IF...as they say "all smokers die young"...then their revenue source would be perpetually dying out.

[Hoffer Rand]

More of the libs unintended consequences at work...

Yup. I wonder if that $120-150 million figure they're throwing around includes the decreased number of smokers. FYI, what they aren't mentioning in this article about their decrease of the food tax is that when they dropped the tax on groceries, they raised the tax on "prepared" food, so eating out became more expensive. Nice, huh?