RHODE ISLAND SMOKERS' CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STATE ECONOMY 2001

2 September 2002

[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 Pay Excise Taxes $ 67,580,560
• Smokers Pay Sales Taxes $ 21,455,280
• Smokers Pay Tobacco Settlement Payments $ 44,500,000

                                                                                              $133,535,840

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 DON’T 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 CDC’s 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 CDC’s 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

[SheLion]

You are just stealing money from the state treasury, stealing food from the mouths of hungry children, and stealing money from the hands of parents of hungry children who would rather use their money for something other than feeding their hungry children.

The above statement that you made just tells me that you have NOT read my thread!  HOW is paying into the state $133,535,840 anyway NEAR taking food from the mouths of the children?  Can you explain that please?

If smokers are paying INTO, there is NO way they are taking OUT!

You DO realize that this money coming into Rhode Island is totally paid by smokers who pay taxes on cigarettes, do you not!  As with ALL the states!

[SheLion]

The Manson Family used tobacco, you know?

  The following Famous People smoke DID YOU KNOW????  This is just a PARITAL list!

You can go to Famous People Who Smoke to find out all the rest.  And believe me, there is quite a few!!!

 

[SheLion]

A partial list of Famous People who smoke:

Jerry O'Connell, Britney Spears, Ryan O'Neal, Jameson Parker, Sean Penn, Luke Perry, Lou Diamond Phillips, Brad Pitt, Dennis Quaid, Robert Redford, Keanu Reeves, Burt Reynolds, Mickey Rourke, Kurt Russell, Ben Affleck, Kevin Bacon, Scott Baio, Adam Baldwin, Alex Balwin, Antonio Banderas, Bruce Boxleitner, Jeff Bridges, matthew Broderick, James Brolin, Pierce Bosman, Nichlos Cage, Robert Carradine, Jim Carrey, David Chocachi, Andrew Dice Clay, GEORGE CLOONEY, TOM CRUISE, Kevin Costner, Macauley Culkin, Ted Danson, Tony Danza, Robert De Niro, James Dean, Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio,Kevin Dillon, Matt Dillon, Robert Downey Jr, David Duchovny, Anthony Edwards,

[Dakmar]

There was more than a little sarcasm in that post. Khepera actually met someone who stated that rolling his own cigs was akin to stealing. I don't use sarcasm tags when I'm being completely facetious. :-)

[logic101.net]

Thanks for the post. Every time a state wants to balance the budget they come to the smokers. When they aren't busy raising our taxes, then they are restricting where we can smoke. Leaches!

MARK A SITY
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[logic101.net]

First they came for the Jews, I said nothing since I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics.... Need I finnish this?

MARK A SITY
http://www.logic101.net/

[lewislynn]

However, if all the smokers quit, then guess what? The state you live in would be coming after something YOU have to make up for the lost taxes on cigarettes. What do you say about THAT?

I say keep it up. In fact I say raise the cigarette taxes even more. I say you're addicted to your cigarettes they're addicted to YOUR money...which one is the fool?

I don't care if you quit or not. You can do it 'till you cough and gag yourself blue, just do it like civilized people with respect for others do with other repulsive things...do it elsewhere.

[lewislynn]

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STATE ECONOMY

That's a joke if not outright lie. The truth is you can't tell the truth. The truth is, cigarette taxes YOU pay advance liberalism/socialism and line the pockets of lawyers more than any other tax imposed on us...and worse yet it's strictly voluntary.

The truth is you have to lie about "CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STATE ECONOMY " because if the truth was told you'd expose yourselves as the fools you are....so puff away on those fags, liberals and lawyers love your stupidity.

[SheLion]

I say you're addicted to your cigarettes they're addicted to YOUR money...which one is the fool?

Your brain dead, you know it?  They aren't GETTING my money! HELLO!!!!!!!!

We roll our own and get a carton for under $8.00!  We are not paying into the state coffers anymore, get it?  Our tobacco comes from overseas, so even Big Tobacco here in the STATES isn't reaping any of our money.

You sure are one nasty stupid chit. Thank God I will never have to meet the likes of you.  You  disgust me...........

You know what? I bet your not "addicted" as you put it to ANYTHING.  I bet your one boring little nerd in real life that gets beat up on all the time.  Because if you spewed your views in real life that you do in here, you would be in the HOSPITAL!!!! Why don't you get a life and stop bashing people who choose to smoke!

[SheLion]

There was more than a little sarcasm in that post. Khepera actually met someone who stated that rolling his own cigs was akin to stealing. I don't use sarcasm tags when I'm being completely facetious. :-)

24 posted on 9/3/02 9:18 AM Eastern by Dakmar

[SheLion]

There was more than a little sarcasm in that post. Khepera actually met someone who stated that rolling his own cigs was akin to stealing. I don't use sarcasm tags when I'm being completely facetious. :-)

Actually, KHEPERA ROLLS HER OWN as well!

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Nothing like being famous.

[Khepera]

Yes I agree... When you want to spew do it elsewhere. Smokers don't want to listen to your bile any more than you want to smell our smoke. Next time you see a smoker, do us all a favor and run away.

[SheLion]

Nothing like being famous.

hehe! That's pretty neat!!

[Just another Joe]

The truth is you can't tell the truth. The truth is, cigarette taxes YOU pay advance liberalism/socialism and line the pockets of lawyers more than any other tax imposed on us...and worse yet it's strictly voluntary.

The truth is, you wouldn't know the truth if it came up and hit you over the head.
The truth is that the states can't practice fiscal responsibility and have been/are taxing themselves right out of any money that IS now being made from the sales of cigarettes.
If it's true that the taxes we pay are advancing liberalism and socialism then the taxes YOU pay are doing the same thing.

The truth is you have to lie about "CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STATE ECONOMY " because if the truth was told you'd expose yourselves as the fools you are....so puff away on those fags, liberals and lawyers love your stupidity.

I'll thank you to spray no more ad hom attacks or I WILL use the abuse button.
You call names when none are called for and if you want to debate and have a rational discourse you are welcome to do that.
If you want to call names and say things that you cannot back up, then expect the abuse button to be used.

[Khepera]

Oh great!!! Now I'm a HER!

I gotta do something to improve my image.

There hows that?

[Just another Joe]

Oh great!!! Now I'm a HER!

At least you aren't a s/he. ;^)

[SheLion]

Yes I agree... When you want to spew do it elsewhere. Smokers don't want to listen to your bile any more than you want to smell our smoke. Next time you see a smoker, do us all a favor and run away.

I HATE to be mean, but he puts me in mind of a skinny little nerd. You know this type.

And isn't it great that he can be such a BIG MAN behind his monitor. Must make him feel REALLY good!

[SheLion]

Oh great!!! Now I'm a HER!

OH CHIT HOW EMBARRASSING!!!!!!!!!!! SOOOOOOOO SORRY!!!!!!!!!

You make a LOT better MAN then you do a GIRL!!!!

[Dakmar]

You are absolutely the last person I would mistake for being a woman. Ok, the moustache kind of reminds me of Helen Thomas, but other than that...