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Posted on 02/04/2009 5:19:46 PM PST by bruinbirdman
This afternoon, President Obama is scheduled to sign recently passed legislation which includes a 61.66 cent increase in the federal tax on cigarettes to help fund the expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). This increase raises the federal tax on cigarettes to just over $1 per pack and will help reduce the serious burden of lung disease felt across New York State by saving lives and money.
Senators Schumer and Gillibrand and the entire New York Congressional Delegation supported this historic legislation.
The American Lung Association in New York estimates that in New York, the additional federal increase of 61 cents will:
-- prevent 77,400 youth from starting to smoke;
-- help 41,300 adult smokers to quit;
-- prevent over 35,000 smoking-related deaths; and
-- save New York State $1.7 billion in future health care costs.
The American Lung Association in New York recently highlighted findings of the State of Tobacco Control 2008 report, which estimates the economic costs in New York State due to smoking are a staggering $14.1 billion dollars. The report found that New York's grades for tobacco prevention funding and coverage were among the worst in Nation, while New York's smokefree laws and tobacco taxation were among the best.
In June 2008, New York State became the national public health leader in tobacco taxation when it raised the tobacco excise tax to $2.75 - the highest in the nation. New York City has its own additional $1.50 local cigarette excise tax, bringing the total tax to $4.25 across the five boroughs.
Liars.
And when they come for you.... as they say....
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I quit smoking last July. Two weeks later I had a heart attack. Still don’t smoke.
This thing is a load of bullsh*t. If all these wonderful things actually do happen to smokers, how the hell are the DemocRATS going to pay for their S-CHIP? This is like telling drivers that the speed and red light cameras are their for their safety. It’s always about the money. Always. Americans aren’t very bright and ALWAYS fall for a good con job.
They count on that you know. Addiction. That way they can have their cake and eat it too. Smokers are swine, that they can tax and nonsmokers will praise the effort.
Well, they just lost my tax dollar. And I'd advise other smokers to stock up and prepare to quit...so this scheme will blow up in their stupid, liberal faces.
If there is a way to extort more money from the serfs, this band of crooks is gonna do it.
Just come out and say it is a tax increase and cut out the bs.
They do not want you to quit you know.
The sooner you quit, the sooner they will have to break it to the masses that all people are going to have to be taxed for this program, the SCHIP program.
But this is going to backfire because people will either smoke less or quit all together.
But if I were the Tobacco companies, I'd slam the door shut.
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Can anyone say “Bootleggers”?
Turf wars between the Mafia, MS-13 and Jamaican gangs to see who controls the smuggling?
Fun, fun, fun.... NOT!
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If they wanted smokers to quit..smoking and tobacco would be made Illegal.
But no, they want the scurvy addicted, the child killers, to smoke and pay, pay, pay..
No one has sympathy for the smokers, you know..
Actually it won't. In support of the last major tax increase on tobacco products here in Michigan, our governor Granholm at least was truthfull when she said the tax was necessary in order to help support the General Fund.
The "health care" excuse has been worn out here in Michigan......
I truly hope that the govt. bans tobacco products (I'll get mine thru the black market). Once it does then they will have to go after the next cash cow called "Alcohol Products"...........HeHeHeHeHe......
I guess all the smokers will just grow their own and roll it themselves. Oh wait, they are doing that now and going to jail!
It dosen't work that way. See Why Quit
It's not like a Democrat politician who smokes is going to pay the tax.
He'll just send a staffer to pick up a few cartons at the Res, or buy them online.
Looks like ammo, guns, homemade beer/wine and now tobacco will be the currency of the future!
What makes these people extra dirty and proves they profit from big tobacco was the fact that they placed a $24 dollar increase on ryo. Now why would they do that? Well big tobacco like Philip Morris and this scum in Congrees made a deal to force people who smoke back to the addictive tobacco of those companies.
This is a dirty, shameful bill which just showcases the corruption of Congress.
Well, following that logic, I guess there will be a homo tax coming soon
Not looking forward to the federal gasoline tax though.
I would just looove to know how that number is calculated.
(If you ask me, they pulled it out of their arse)
Now, on top of this .61 federal tax on cigarettes, we here in Arkansas are faced with an additional .50 tax added on top of the .61.
Posted on 30 December 2008 By Rob Moritz Arkansas News Bureau
LITTLE ROCK — A conservative think tank is urging Arkansas voters to speak out against a proposed increase in the state’s cigarette tax.
Rep. Gene Shelby, D-Hot Springs, and the anti-smoking organization “Step Up Coalition” have suggested raising the tax by at least 50 cents per pack and using the revenue to pay for a new statewide trauma system estimated to cost $25 million to $30 million annually.
The rest of the revenue — a 50 cent tax hike on a pack of cigarettes would generate about $71 million annually — would possibly fund other health-related items, including the annual $3.5 million operating cost of the proposed Northwest Arkansas campus of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences"...snip
In order to pay for this we’re gonna need 21 million new smokers...smoke ‘em if you got ‘em...it’s for the kids.
And another thing, sorry, but this really irks me, won’t the “poor” be the hardest hit?
I need to quit anyway...
Sigh
I just hate that the govt has anything to do with the decision...
Who buys the President’s cigarettes?
Smoking is about to become an elite, expensive indulgence, like learning to fly a plane in your 50’s, sailing around the world for fun, parachuting on the weekends or golf for bad golfers.
The problem here is the GOVERNMENT playing nanny, a nanny with her hands in the child's piggy bank..exploitation.
If free people want to kill themselves..it is NOT the Governments problem!
Insurance rates? Oh, is that a problem?
Well, then why doesn't the government talk about and tax homosexual behavior? If I remember correctly, my insurance rates started going up when AIDS came into being....talk about risky business! 
I suggest learning to roll your own. My buddy has since they hit 2 bucks a pack and laughs at me when I buy a pack.
But, I keep the ammo,guns and alcohol..sell the cigs
I don’t know of too many high income people who smoke.
Hope all those “average Americans” who voted for 0 like their “change”!
Next, tax 40oz Malt Liquor.
I’ve said it before ,, if anyone reading has deep pockets I’ll buy/rent acreage in a high tax state such as New York , and subdivide the land or create a co-op so that individuals can grow tax free tobacco... I’ll do all the growing and cigarette manufacturing... It’s perfectly legal to grow your own.. my gain will be a salaried position as farm help , the silent partner will make out well ..
Strangling the golden goose...
Whadda ya bet there will soon be a thriving black market - and increase in convenience store robberies and shootings? (Kinda fun too watch 'bama widen his circle of enemies, many of who are wondering: "Why did I vote for him?"
) Get used to it, 'bamanites. You ain't seen nothing yet. And for you young folk, wait 'til your get you notice to report for 100 hours each year of "volunteer" work.
Will these taxes be included to cigs that are exported or are you only punished if you are an American?
WTF is it with these people taxing targeted groups to pay for broad social plans?
Lets fine black politicians instead.
How would that work? Like all the people that quit drinking during prohibition?
Yeah, that'd work - the Mafioso would love that -
...coming from the "street activist" mentality and income to $400,000 a year plus enormous perks, do you really think he considers any price for anything?
My point exactly!
Atlas Puked...
They could pay off the national debt in a single year if Obama would simply pass an Imbecility Tax, and make congressional office holders subject to its strictures. A Deceit and Dishonesty Tax would put the United States well into the black.
Shaking my head again.
I wonder if that long-legged Mac Daddy in the White House has to pay the taxes on HIS cancer sticks...?
Whadaya bet some of those drug lords from down south start branching out into other products.
Oh, and your term 'black market'...
You know, the only real solution is to throw the tobacco smokers into cells next to the Marijuana smokers.
Excellent.
Now we can create another enterprise for organized crime.
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