Maine Cigarette taxes to generate more revenue than corporate income taxes

Associated Press via Boston.Com ^ | 04/17/2002 | Associated Press

[ozone1]

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) Cigarette taxes are expected to become the No. 3 revenue generator for the state this year and bring in even more than corporate income taxes.

The state's latest revenue forecast shows that taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products are expected to generate about $95 million this fiscal year. Corporate income taxes are projected to be about $90 million.

[ozone1]

Things as so bad up here that sin taxes collect more money than corporate income taxes.

[patton]

I would like to propose a new tax law for Maine.

It seems to me, that the solid emissions from a car are equally as harmfull as those from tobacco.

Thus, if a gallon of gas results in the same particulate emissions as, say, a pack of cigarettes, then they should be taxed at the same rate, for the children.

Why don't you guys sponsor a ballot amendment to tie the tax on gas to the tax on cigarettes? Whatever one must pay on a pack of cigarettes, one must also pay per gallon of gas.

The referendum would surely pass - after all, polution is polution.

Isn't it?

[ozone1]

What could it be called? The Winston-Salem Kyoto Treaty? Sponsored by: Coalition for a Liberal-Free Maine

[patton]

The "Let-all-of-the-liberals-that-lurk-in-the-mud-hatch-out" Tax.

With apologies to the author of I, CLAVDIVS

[VA Advogado]

''It always turned out that we're too optimistic about how much it's going to reduce the consumption.''

In other words, you lie to the general public in order to screw the smokers. Sad.

She, isn't this your back yard?

[SheLion]

Hi ozone! This was posted on a thread yesterday:

Cigarette taxes to generate more revenue than corporate income taxes

The email address for Laurie Lachance is:

laurie.lachance@state.me.us

[VA Advogado]

Thus, if a gallon of gas results in the same particulate emissions as, say, a pack of cigarettes, then they should be taxed at the same rate, for the children.

They should tax their potatoes. Those carb laced bombs kill more people annually than smoking.

[ozone1]

Don't grow potatoes anymore, the scab got um.

[Grut]

They should tax their potatoes. Those carb laced bombs kill more people annually than smoking.

Not true. By the time you're done peeling out a black-hearted Maine dirtball, it's calorie-free.

[ozone1]

Sorry, did a search under Maine and nothing came up.


Cianchette for Governor,
our only hope of not becoming a
national park.


Coalition for a Liberal-Free Maine

[SheLion]

Grut, your from Maine and I am from Maine. Was that some kind of joke?

[SheLion]

ozone, that's ok. It's on FP. We had a big discussion about this yesterday. Always good to revive it, though.

[ozone1]

There's going to be a good market for goat meat in
Lewiston, got any contacts up there?

[SheLion]

If Baldacchi becomes our next Governor, you think we have it bad now, just wait! Talk about marching with the JACK boots with BROWN SHIRTS!

[SheLion]

GOAT MEAT??!!

Lord, don't think so. hehe!

[ozone1]

Ah, but think of all the good we can do by taxing calories
of the spaghetti dinners he's going to serve.

[ozone1]

Goat meat is the Somali banquet meal.

[SheLion]

ozone, you totally lost me. LOL

I've been living in Aroostook too long. heh! :)

[ozone1]

1,000 Somalians moving to Lewiston, ME
1,000 democRATS moving to Lewiston