On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:11:29 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:

snippity-snip

And you can just complain when something you like is taxed to excess. The
Govenator's new universal health plan for children in California is to be
paid for by tobacco taxes. What a crock. If it is a good thing to have
cheap universal insurance, then let everyone pay for it.

Paying for long term programs with tobacco taxes is a Catch 22. Smoking is
declining and additional taxes will only serve to hasten the decline as will
the decline of revenues generated by the tax.

If everyone in the US quit smoking tomorrow, new taxes would spring up
somewhere else to make up the tax deficit. Who's next?

Eisboch


Kansas decided to ride the tobacco tax windfall and raised the taxes
by a huge amount. Missouri next door left the tobacco taxes alone.
Kansas lost their asses while Missouri gained a huge tax proffit
because the eastern half of Kansas was going to Missouri to buy
cigaretts. Greed? LOL
Kansas even tried laws and border checks until they got their asses
sued over it.
Mark E. Williams