Coughing up ... Smoking will become more expensive.
The money from Australia's smoking prohibition would be used to fund Ruddcare.
The bootleg cigarette would receive an anticipated rise.
Posted on 04/14/2010 3:35:18 AM PDT by myknowledge
SMOKERS may pay an extra $6.50 for a packet of 30 cigarettes to help foot the bill for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's $18 billion health reforms.
The Government's National Preventative Health Taskforce has called for the tax rise in next month's Budget and the soon-to-be-released Henry tax review also examines the option.
A tobacco tax rise could raise two-thirds of the $3 billion Mr Rudd needs to fund the sweeteners he has offered the states to endorse his healthcare reforms.
Up to three million smokers would be hit if the price of a pack of 30 cigarettes rose from about $13.50 to $20 over a three-year period under the preventative health taskforce model.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailytelegraph.com.au ...
Coughing up ... Smoking will become more expensive.
The money from Australia's smoking prohibition would be used to fund Ruddcare.
The bootleg cigarette would receive an anticipated rise.
30 packs?
No, the article and I meant packets of 30 smokes.
We have packs of 20 ... the Brits have packs of 30 (ea) ?
Australia
There’s a poll on the link:
Should smokers pay higher prices for cigarettes to help pay for hospital reforms?
Yes
No
There aren’t enough smokers to pay for these hospital reforms, everyone will soon enough be slammed with draconian taxes.(SCHIP is funded by smokers in the US - it’s not sustainable)
What a boom for the black market entrepreneur though.....
Stop bumming them
Stop smoking them
next problem...
State lottery dependency
Ahh, yes. Otherwise known as the Welfare-for-Mobsters-Act.
Price singles are so messed up in a command/socialist system that there is never enough money to tax. The system, over time, always decays and becomes more expensive, slower, with ever lower quality. It is capitalism in reverse.
See how easy it is to control someone else? Fun too.
Canada has packs of 25...never seen a pack of 30.
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Make it an even $12,392,299.82 per cigarette.
Should smokers pay higher prices for cigarettes to help pay for hospital reforms?
* Yes 58.4% (2832 votes)
* No 41.6% (2017 votes)
Total votes: 4849
I smell a black market cigarette economy about to be born.
Those countries with Socialized Medicine also have huge taxes on cigarettes and alcohol.
I can hear the Obama voters scream now as the price of cigarettes and malt liquor doubles or triples in price to pay for Obama’s Socialized Medicine.
But Obama being a good Socialist will send government money to his voters to pay for their cigs.
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity. Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address.
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