Higher cigarette tax needed to cut smoking, backers say

The Courier-Journal ^ | February 14, 2004 | MICHAEL A. LINDENBERGER

[skip2myloo]

Its true - these politicians are corrupt.

But that's almost axiomatic, we EXPECT them to be corrupt.

The real problem is with the people, who are either too stupid or too apathetic and WE allow the politicians to get away with it.

[The Raven]

>>>IN THE MONTHS after cigarette taxes were sharply increased in New York City — where state and city levies can add $3 to each pack — the per-capita smoking rate stayed at about 91 packs a year, he said. Only about 71 packs per capita per year were reported to state and city tax collectors, he said.

Another plan that didn't work

[Beck_isright]

More moronic thinking brought to you by the people who created newspeak. If you disagree with the government official, please report to your local branch of the Ministry of Truth for corrective action.

[Walkingfeather]

so true so true

[CSM]

Does anyone know the rate of taxation on Tea in the colonial days? I would be curious to know what rates the fathers of our country found as unacceptable.