[NormsRevenge]

WE NEED A NEW TEAM IN SACRAMENTO!!! VOTE SIMON NOVEMBER 5th


GO SIMON

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Tom McClintock for CA State Controller



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Dick Ackerman for CA Attorney General

[Free the USA]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[Great Dane]

.. California had the biggest deficit by far and didn't. I attribute that to the influence of the tobacco companies."

Or could it be that California were ahead of the game in raising taxes on cigarettes.

[monkeyshine]

Nineteen other states around the nation that faced budget deficits enacted a cigarette tax increase to help balance their budgets. ... California had the biggest deficit by far and didn't. I attribute that to the influence of the tobacco companies

Revealing. It's not about health, it's about balancing the budget.

The fact is that California has already raised taxes on cigarettes recently. To do it again because of incompetence on the part of the government would be shameful, and possibly reduce revenues as people went outside the state for purchases.