Posted on 09/02/2002 4:03:14 AM PDT by SheLion
RHODE ISLAND SMOKERS' CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STATE ECONOMY 2001
Rhode Island smokers comprise only 23.5% of the adult population in the state. Here is what they already pay because they choose to buy a legal product:
Smokers Economic/Tax Profile
- Income
- Rhode Island smokers median income 2000 $28,154
- Median Income Smoker Rhode Island State Tax Liability
- Annual state income tax liability for a couple $589
- Annual state income tax liability for a couple with two children $364
- Smoker Excise Tax/Sales Tax/Tobacco Settlement Payments Liability
- Total average paid per Rhode Island smoker in excise and sales taxes $473
- Price per Rhode Island smoker for settlement payments to Rhode Island $236
Total annual payment to Rhode Island per smoker $709
Rhode Island Smoker Facts
- Rhode Island smoker payments in 2001 were more than fourteen times as large as state excise taxes of $9.2 million on alcoholic beverages.
- Rhode Island smoker payments in 2001 were more than 58% larger than total corporate net income tax revenues paid by Rhode Island corporations ($84.3 million).
- In 2001, Rhode Island smoker payments were greater than Rhode Island motor fuels taxes of $118.9 million.
- Rhode Island smoker payments could have paid for FY2001 spending for:
- The Department of Health ($84 million)
- Disease Prevention and Control ($5 million)
- The State Police ($37.7 million)
- Environmental Management ($52.7 million)
- Veterans ($12.4 million)
- In 1997, smokers supported 1,484 jobs that paid an additional $1,824,905 in state and local personal income and corporate taxes.
CIGARETTES DONT PAY TAXES RHODE ISLAND SMOKERS DO!!
Rhode Island Data Sources
Total Packs sold = 799,464,000 (Orzechowski & Walker Tax Burden On Tobacco 2001 from Rhode Island Department of Revenue)
Excise Taxes Paid = Orzechowski & Walker Tax Burden On Tobacco 2001 from Rhode Island Department of Revenue packs sold
Sales Taxes Paid= packs sold multiplied by sales tax rate (7% or $.27 per pack)
Settlement payment amount (Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids)
Number of smokers (188,215)= Census Bureau 2000 Rhode Island 18+ population (1,046,319) multiplied by CDCs 2000 percent of adults who are smokers (23.5)
Total paid per smoker excise & sales taxes = total excise and sales taxes paid (89,035,840) divided by number of smokers (188,215)
Total paid per smoker for settlement payments = settlement payments amount divided by number of smokers
Smokers median income per CDCs Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System 2000, public use data
State annual income tax liability from PayBreeze software of General Programming, Inc., San Jose, California, which utilizes the Exact Calculation Method
Smoker facts from Rhode Island State Budget Office, FY 2002 Budget as Enacted, p. 17-18, Online at
http://www.budget.state.ri.us/
Jobs created and personal/corporate income tax paid from Economic Impact of Tobacco 1997
The prissy little pssys bray and talk about 'clean air' , and want to use government to take our freedoms away, and some of them call themselves 'Conservatives'.
I hope I am still around when the other gestapo types comes calling for them because government is so very pervasive, and government will wind up in their faces if this stupid mentality doesen't change.
Your having one hell of a good time, aren't you?! There is no getting through to you. You can flame me all you want and all my friends in here. But you know what? All you are accomplishing is that "we think you are one damn idiot."
Flame me all you want. This is the LAST time I will respond to your stupid asinine remarks. Have a good life "---- weed."
VRWC_minion:
Couch potato lifestyle is worse for your health than smoking
Taxing fat foods or suing the industry are bad ideas. A new tax only gives the government another way to separate people from their money. If Americans learned anything from the tobacco lawsuit, it was politicians blew smoke when they promised to dedicate the $260 billion settlement on smoking-related expenses and tobacco cessation. And even with $100 million a year coming in from Big Tobacco, legislative Democrats still managed to turn billions in surpluses into a $1.5 billion deficit."
Tell VRWC_minion that HITLER was the only one that banned smoking back in 1938! Then KLINTOON in 1998.
KS! Your another one who always comes through for us!
Isn't it sad that one of our own comes into a Free Republic thread and trashed us? I really think he was sent over here by the anti-smokers to harass us!
How can he call himself a Conservative when he does not believe in Free of Choice???? It's the American WAY!
He's a really sad case and I pity him. I think he has deep-seated mental problems. Don't you?
This was posted by our friend VRWC_minion on another thread:-
My wife is still working on me. So far I have given up drinking, smoking, fatty foods, caffeine and wiskers in sink. Still on her list is staring at girls, socks on the floor, helping around the house and probably more than I know as of yet. In 100 years I'll be perfect.
Wow!! No wonder he's such a miserable SOB! And after all that nagging, he still carries on like a pork chop on smoking threads.
Strike another one off the list - he used to make me angry, but after reading this, I have nothing but pity for him. Poor "man".
You don't treat your man so mean, do you SheLion? I know my wife treats me rather much better.
Kalifornistan and other places have determined that smoking is illegal, although they need the taxes to pay for benefits for illegal aliens so they can get more democRATS to vote.
I am stilling looking for that place in Colorado where Atlas finally shrugged. Where are you Dagney?
:-) I don't think your husband would like that, but I know what you're trying to say. No problem, take all the time you need. Special request: after doing the 50 states, could you do Japan too? Thanks.
Oh my GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anti smokers are the WORST!!!!!! He quit SMOKING? Well he is a "repressed smoker." And he hates the rest of us because we still enjoy it!! It's a wonder he doesn't hate his forkin wife for doing this to him! She's an ass, in plain English.
I bet he smoked LONG before he met HER. SHE must wear the PANTS in the family.
Pity.
You don't treat your man so mean, do you SheLion? I know my wife treats me rather much better.
Ohhhhhhhh Orwell..........Bubba and I both smoke! Before and after EVERYTHING we do! heh! We both love to smoke. He agrees with me about the smoking bans and think they are ridiculous. He thinks Mayor Bloomberg is an absolute ASS! And there are only three places up here where we can go, ate, drink and smoke. He's worse then ME about spending his money in an ANTI-SMOKING JOINT! He will not GO! He supports my position in Forces Maine and also thinks our Governor King is an absolute ASS as well as the Partnership for a Tobacco Free Maine.
But thanks for opening my eyes about VRWC_minion. He must not be much of a man if he can't up to a woman. Even if it IS is wife. The bitch!!
There is nothing worse than a reformed smoker.
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