Patrick Hauf of the Washington Free Beacon details the potential impact of one tax proposal touted by U.S. House Democrats. The Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget proposal relies on a $100…
USA Today focuses in this piece on the gigantic federal tax hike on tobacco, imposed by President Obama in 2009. The tax went from 39 cents to $1.09 on each…
Prop 29 in California, which would impose a $1 per pack tax hike on cigarettes, is on the edge of defeat. Per this LA Times story, as of last night,…
Just in time for the new session of the General Assembly, which reconvenes tomorrow in Raleigh, we’ve already got a call for hiking the cigarette tax by $1 — for…
Now that Congress has approved ObamaCare, what are the likely political implications? John Hood addresses that question in the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio. Michael Sanera will also join…
Higher sales taxes, alcohol taxes, and tobacco taxes all took effect today. Now you know why next weekend is Labor Day. Add another day of labor to pay your new…
The N.C. House Finance Committee just voted 22-7 to remove a tobacco tax increase, estimated to generate $122 million, from its proposed $940 million tax package. After that vote, committee…
You think that cigarettes should be taxed to fund increases in children’s health insurance, and then people should be forbidden to smoke them.
Kudos to Raleigh City Councilman Philip Isley for trying to safeguard individual rights and refusing to jump on the bandwagon that’s pushing for a ban on smoking in public parks.…
Whatever new alcohol or tobacco taxes the General Assembly passes will be on top of a 61-cent per pack (156 percent) federal tobacco tax increase to expand the government takeover…
You might want to keep your love of the candy cigarettes to yourself. Otherwise, some enterprising lawmaker with a thirst for revenue might decide the state needs to raise its…
As explained by Benjamin Barr below, a decimal point in a ballot initiative in Arizona can make all the difference in the world. I know from personal experience that a…