Cigarettes Get New Weesh Tax Increase
Cigarettes Get New Weesh Tax Increase
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Tobacco companies and public health advocates, longtime foes in the nicotine battles, are trying to turn the situation to their advantage. The major cigarette makers raised prices a couple of weeks ago, partly to offset any drop in profits once the per-pack tax climbs from 39 cents to $1.01.
Medical groups see a tax increase right in the middle of a recession as a great incentive to help persuade smokers to quit.
The pricing moves raised eyebrows. “That’s nothing more than greed,” said Kevin Altman, an industry consultant who advises small tobacco companies. “They weren’t required to charge that until April 1. They are just putting that into their pockets.”
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Responded Phelps: “We raised our prices in direct response to the federal excise tax increase, and people who are upset about that should find out how their member of Congress voted, and contact him or her.”
Some policy analysts have questioned the wisdom of boosting tobacco taxes to finance health care for children. They argue that the fate of such a broad program should not depend on revenues derived from a minority of the adult population, many of whom have low incomes and are hooked on a habit. The tobacco industry is also warning that the steep increase will lead to tax evasion through old-fashioned smuggling or by Internet purchase from abroad.
Cigarette smokers continue to be the most persecuted group in America.
It is safe to say that anyone who pushes these Cigarette Tax increases has never shared a bottle of red and some smokes with a French Model Girl. Nor enjoyed what happens succeeding.
That being said, they have no authority to make these decisions.
For me, it doesn’t matter. I am Liquid.
If you are a smoker, feel free to get in on The Smuggling Game.
The government is all but forcing you too. Boston Tea Party and all that.
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