PA will see even a bigger jump in sales...
Posted on 06/19/2010 4:26:36 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Cigarette taxes in New York would jump by $1.60 a pack under a tentative deal reached between Gov. David A. Paterson and legislative leaders, which would give New York the nation’s highest state cigarette taxes.
The proposal, which officials said Mr. Paterson would include in an emergency budget bill due for a vote on Monday, would also raise wholesale taxes on other tobacco products like chewing tobacco, bringing the tax on those products closer in line with those of cigarettes.
In New York City, which levies steep taxes of its own on tobacco products, a pack of cigarettes would come with a tax of $5.85, making it the nation’s first city to break $5, antismoking advocates said. That would bring the overall cost of a pack of premium cigarettes above $10 in many stores in the city.
The legislation will also include a plan to begin collecting taxes on cigarettes sold off the reservation by Indian tribes in New York, an issue that has provoked confrontations between State Police officers and protesting tribe members in years past.
The proposal would generate $440 million in revenue this year, helping close a state budget gap estimated at over $9 billion. But it is unclear whether there are enough votes to approve the plan in the State Senate, where Republicans have threatened to vote against any emergency budget bill that includes tax increases and some Democrats oppose efforts to collect taxes on cigarettes sold by the tribes.
Should the measure fail, the government would face an unprecedented shutdown. Should it pass, lawmakers must still meet to find ways to close the entire budget gap.
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I’m glad I quit when they went to 30 cents a pack in the machine in the dorm.
Time to tax marijuana, smack, cocaine and heroin. Those are the drugs that have created the underclass that looks to the Gubmint for subsidized food, shelter and medical care.
Paygo!!!
I don't know much, but I do know every time policticians raise a tax and says it will raise x amount of money, it never does. It more often then not causes the amount to go down.
Why, because people either do without, or find other sources for the product being taxed.
Those running black markets for cigarettes are going to get rich.
When will policticians ever learn?
But you know what, those in New York keep electing these clowns so they are getting the government they wanted.
This is nothing more than legal prohibition. It’s extortion.
I see Freepers post this all the time. I live in NY. I didn't vote for these clowns. Did I get the government I wanted?
I live in California, tell me, who has it worse.
And yes, even as minorities we get the government we wanted because we still live where we do. When we have had enough, we will move.
Watch for increased traffic across the river in the Akwasasne Reserve.
You're right. I always refer to the people who vote in regimes like the ones under which you live as "the voting majority of %$@$$@ers" instead so that good people like you are excluded.
I live in MD and to say I have any sort of effective representation in our state government here would be a complete and total lie as well.
We want to move too but Hubby’s job is here. *sigh*
Frustrating as heck, ain’t it. And yet, I live in a “red” area. However in the last 10 years, we had an influx of blue city people moving in.
I guit ten years ago when they went to 3.30 a pack from 2.85.
They said the money was going to fund some health care scheme, not from me it didnt
Since the state is so dependent on the taxes now, one would think they would lower them substantially to encourage the smokers to buy in state....But we know how democraps and taxes work.
...and notice that they don’t even use the lame excuse of funding their health care due to the burden smokers put on the system.........At least they’re up front about it now.
I have some personal reasons for staying, but I am making plans on leaving as soon as possible.
PA will see even a bigger jump in sales...
Oh man that DOES suck indeed. These damn liberal parasites. Everywhere they live they turn into excrement... and the only way they can survive is to move to another area to ruin anew.
Sounds like Agent Smith's definition of a virus.
Excellent news for New York’s organized crime sector.
Cigarette smuggling is suddenly a lot more profitable.
The long term viability of Paterson’s plan is really suspect. How can one base the fiscal solvency of a rapidly growing government by taxing a product that is decreasing in popularity?
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