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Tobacco tax backers launch campaign with swipe at opponents
Sac Bee ^
| Feb 1, 2012
| staff
Posted on 02/01/2012 10:36:36 PM PST by umgud
Supporters of a tobacco tax slated for the June primary ballot launched the opening salvo today of what is expected to be a multimillion dollar campaign, framing their effort as a battle to beat moneyed "big tobacco" interests.
At a news conference kicking off the campaign, Proposition 29 proponents cast their measure, which would raise taxes on cigarettes by $1 a pack to fund cancer research and anti-smoking programs, as an approach to improve health and save lives.
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: tobaccotaxes
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To: Drango
Pick something you like that you shouldn’t really do, and volunteer a tax on it. Until then you can cram it. I remember $0.98/pack, now they’re $6.50 - and I’m in Texas.
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posted on
02/02/2012 12:35:26 AM PST
by
TheZMan
(Obama is without a doubt the worst President ever elected to these United States)
To: Drango
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. - Thomas Jefferson
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posted on
02/02/2012 12:42:06 AM PST
by
loboinok
(Gun control is hitting what you aim at!)
To: TheZMan
I started at .49 a pack and payed .25 a pack while in the military.
They are charging $14.00 a pack in some places now.
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posted on
02/02/2012 12:48:54 AM PST
by
loboinok
(Gun control is hitting what you aim at!)
To: Drango
Im still in favor of it. Econ 101. An increase in price decreases demand. So while the cigarette tax revenues will go down a rat hole...there will be a benefit to society with less people smoking.Econ 101, when prohibition is applied either through outlawing or proscribing through high taxes or other means, people will seek out another solution. So more black market cigarettes, purchases from out of state, or other means to avoid paying the higher taxes.
Society is never benefited by government mandates, only stifled as opinions of the few are granted higher status than the opinions of the many. You don't like cigarettes, don't buy them. But, on the flip side, Romney's REALLY your man, as he loves mandates, says they work.
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posted on
02/02/2012 12:49:25 AM PST
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: Drango
Always the commie aren’t you? Why not increase the tax on gasoline astronomically so we can stop buying Saudi oil?
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posted on
02/02/2012 2:00:41 AM PST
by
TigersEye
(Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
To: umgud
If this is really about cancer research, why don’t they contribute the money they were going to spend on the multimillion dollar campaign to that research?
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posted on
02/02/2012 3:56:10 AM PST
by
Seabeejas
(h)
To: Drango
Please detail your life style so we here can decide which things you do that we would like to tax you on. It will be for the good of society.
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posted on
02/02/2012 3:58:08 AM PST
by
Seabeejas
(h)
To: Drango
You've been on the wrong site all these years.
NannyState.now would prolly be a better fit for ya.
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posted on
02/02/2012 4:09:50 AM PST
by
tomkat
(para bellum)
To: Drango
"One of the few tax increases I would support. Raising the cost of cigarettes decreases the demand. Thats a good thing."I guess you don't see the irony of your own tagline:
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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posted on
02/02/2012 6:07:45 AM PST
by
Godebert
(NO PERSON EXCEPT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN!)
To: abishai
What else do we not like... drango kills people, tax him to death...???
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posted on
02/02/2012 7:12:38 AM PST
by
Gilbo_3
(Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
To: Gilbo_3
Hey gayboy...the protocol on FR is if you are going to name someone in a thread, its a matter of courtesy to ping them.
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posted on
02/02/2012 6:24:15 PM PST
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: Drango
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posted on
02/02/2012 8:03:57 PM PST
by
Gilbo_3
(Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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