In 2013 both Kansas and North Carolina cut taxes. The left claimed it would lead to massive shortfalls, cuts in necessary government services, and basically that the entire world was…
…you support a state/city government that places a $5+ tax on a pack of cigarettes and you have no problem with that government using the police to enforce that tax…
To guarantee that the revenue stream from oppressive cigarette taxes continues to flow to the state and city of New York.
I do appreciate the kindly people who destroy their lungs so the state can give their cigarette money to agriculturalists, who want portable netting for piglets.
The Revenue Laws Study Committee this morning rejected proposed legislation to reinstate cigarette tax stamps. Looks like it?s dead for the short session. Of course, there?s always next year??.
Authors of a new paper on cigarette excise taxes find that people who smoke more — the authors call them “consumers who undertake more price search” — pay less of…
In a long lead editorial in yesterday’s paper, the Winston-Salem Journal endorses FDA regulation of tobacco, reasoning that the “government has the right, and the duty, to protect its citizens…
As expected, Sen. Kay Hagan votes for the SCHIP bill; Cone posts her symbolic amendment to reduce the cigarette tax which, according to Under the Dome, was withdrawn “because it…
If this were the lottery, then we could put up billboards to promote the behavior that boosts critical revenues. I imagine a picture with a multi-ethnic group of smiling third…
The N&O’s Rob Christensen profiles U.S. Senate candidate Kay Hagan, saying that her voting record in the state Senate is within the Democratic mainstream: She voted in favor of providing…
Look closely at the graph below showing cigarette usage and taxes in Washington State. Some would have you believe that the higher cigarette taxes are leading people to stop smoking.…
Matt makes a very good point. For many young people, the experience gained in their early jobs are more important in the long run than the money earned. By raising…