New York Loses $400 Million After Imposing The Nation’s Highest Cigarette Tax

dailycaller.com ^ | december 28, 2015 | guy bentley

[BwanaNdege]

So say the tax-the-rich,

"...low-income smokers, defined as individuals in households earning less than $30,000 a year, spent 23.6 percent of the annual household income on cigarettes in 2010-2011. That number is up from 11.6 percent in 2003-2004.

Smokers in households in wealthier households earning over $60,000 a year spent an around 2.2 percent of their household income on cigarettes."

[i_robot73]

Sorry, but...and?

Let’s take it @ face value. Like the income tax, those same < $30k (aka “the ‘poor’”) could care less what % is spent, nor on what. Why should they, when they get a huge chunk of ill-gotten gains from taxpayers ala govt ‘charity’?

IMO, those on the dole that decide waste $$ on smokes, liquor, lottery, etc. shouldn’t be able to vote, let alone reproduce.

Like anything, when one is responsible for the payment, THEN it gets the scrutiny it deserves. Hence why I support a return of user-payer for schools, trash, parks, sports teams (almost as bad as schools), h-care, etc.

You use it, you pay for it. You’d bet those same ‘poor’, if paying out of pocket, would be going across State lines, rolling their own, reservation/cheaper brands, etc. ...just like the ‘affluent’.