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Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule
Let me preface this by saying I don't smoke.
I walked into Royal Farms for my morning coffee, and one guy was thinking about getting cigarettes but decided not to get them. Turns out that the new 70 cent federal tax was being charged to help fund SCHIP, the state children health insurance program.
I guess I bring it up to say, I am willing to bet that cigarette consumption goes down, thus tax revenue will not meet projections, and what politician is going to
a) reduce the cigarette tax
b) reduce SCHIP
The answer is none, at least none that want to be re-elected and not demonized, so it will stay and need federal funding not accounted for in Stimulus program and keep a depressed economy even moreso.
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I can see the the new federal goverment comercials on this. Light one up for the children of illegal imigrants or "save a child one puff at a time".