and would supposedly raise money for cancer research.supposedly being the operative word here since it has NEVER been the states job to do cancer research with taxpayers money...
The link is bad.
About damn time, However I think it is probably too late to save the place.
May also signal that the 'Jig is down" or that the "Jig is out" too. /snic
By the same token , during Porkulus how often was Hussein on TV saying ,"we need to hire MORE firefighters & teachers"?
We passed porkulus and not 2 years later here's Hussein again saying we haven't hired enough firefighters and teachers.
It's good news but this by itself is not "evidence" of any new trend. It has been decades since Californians have approved a direct tax increase ballot measure -- if ever. It's the constant approval of bonds and re-electing of officials whose names sound familiar that is killing our state.
and would supposedly raise money for cancer research.supposedly being the operative word here since it has NEVER been the states job to do cancer research with taxpayers money...
Vote to be overturned by CSer fed judge in 10 seconds.
I question that figure. More propaganda from the state to help them tax more.
The CDC says 19.3% of Americans smoke with 21% of non-Hispanic whites and 20.6% of non-Hispanic blacks. 12.5% of Hispanics smoke according to the 2010 data.
Some judge will be along soon to nullify this vote and the votes in San Diego and San Jose.
This proposed tax was so bad, the LA Slimes and the defenders of Prop 13 were in agreement to shoot it down.
The tax $’s raised would have gone to other left wing bs non profits in other states.
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.
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.
There were widespread predictions that this tax would introduce California to the joys of gang-dominated cigarette smuggling.
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.
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?