I have been researching this stuff for quite awhile. Just burns me up. You know it and I know it: it's all about money. The more they can bleed from the smokers! They double speak out of both sides of their mouths.
Tax us to death but say "it's for the kids," or "higher taxes will help you quit." Oh yes, right!
Then the Tobacco Settlement Money. Each state feel like they lost a rich dead uncle. And the DemocRATS are more guilty of misspending then any of them.
Especially about higher taxes will get more people to quit - yet in the next breath they claim that smokers are so addicted that they can not just quit without the help of the government and the pharacuetical companies.
And to thebig spenders - I had such high hopes for the firts female Governor of Delaware - even though she is a Democrat in all her years in the State Senate she was a majorly fiscally conservative person.
Here we are just through the 1st quarter of the fiscal year andalready there is a 95million projected shortfall.
When we faced on last spring her idea was a 35cent a pack tax increase so state employees could get a raise. Suddenly she got her smoking ban and then there was enough money---gee how convenient.
Now she's calling for a 50cent a pack increase to help cover the shortfall. I think she's got another thing coming to her come January.
Smokers are ticked and have woken up in Delaware - no way is it going to be easy to increase that tax and not any others.