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Californians Reject Cigarette Tax - Jig Is Up
California Deptment of Health - California Secretary of State ^
| 6/9/2012
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Posted on 06/09/2012 6:49:12 AM PDT by Positive
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To: Positive
i suspect this tax failed because the majority of people who smoke cigarettes are lower middle class and poor and this would be a tax directly on them. if this tax only affected “the rich” ie anyone who makes more money than they do the tax would have passed.
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posted on
06/09/2012 8:07:05 AM PDT
by
bravo whiskey
(If the little things really bother you, maybe it's because the big things are going well.)
To: Chode
except that will prolly never happen... it will goto the general fund and be wasted on illegal alien welfare or some suchPensions and health coverage for public sector employees.
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posted on
06/09/2012 8:16:38 AM PDT
by
going hot
(Happiness is a momma deuce)
To: Positive
89% of Californians could have voted for this tax which would not have directly impacted them. It would have been a tax only on the smokers and would supposedly raise money for cancer research.Good for them. Nothing made me more disappointed with my fellow Coloradans than when they voted to double the tobacco tax a few years ago. CO has become infected with liberal parasites but it took more than just libs to make that self-serving un-American choice.
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posted on
06/09/2012 8:34:45 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
To: going hot
yer prolly right...
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posted on
06/09/2012 8:35:06 AM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Positive
There were widespread predictions that this tax would introduce California to the joys of gang-dominated cigarette smuggling.
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posted on
06/09/2012 8:45:43 AM PDT
by
Thud
To: Positive
There may be some realization on the part of the general public.
I suspect the cigarette tax is dead, but I suspect unions will try to get activist judges to overturn pension reform.
If they do, paycheck protection will probably pass on initiative.
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posted on
06/09/2012 9:08:31 AM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it and the law is what WE say it is.)
To: Positive
50.4% AGAINST an enemy proposal - somebody is on the way to the wood shed. Couldn’t ANYONE find a few thousand vote in an old desk or the trunk of a state owned car?
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posted on
06/09/2012 9:18:49 AM PDT
by
jmaroneps37
(Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
To: YankeeReb
and why do we need more firefighters? I haven’t heard of any major fires burning down a city lately? I used to be one, now most of them are running medical calls with a half million dollar firetruck instead of downsizing.
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posted on
06/09/2012 9:32:41 AM PDT
by
ClayinVA
("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
To: kevao
Just noticed your comment about a judge nulifying this vote. I don't think so.
My reason is this was an affirmative measure. A yes vote would create a tax. Therefore since it did not pass, nothing happens. A judge or court can't make a new thing come into fuition.
A dim supervised recount is another thing though. Some missing votes may be found.
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posted on
06/09/2012 2:08:09 PM PDT
by
Positive
(Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks Positive.
Bad link! Bad! Bad! ;’)
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06/13/2012 6:36:51 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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