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Posted By populist 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
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President Obama and his adherents in Congress recently made good on their pledge to tax the rich — and only the rich — when they raised the federal sales tax on a pack of cigarettes from $0.39 to $1.00. This more-than-250% increase has the potential to create a massive influx of revenue that could be used for all sorts of necessary expenditures — such as pork projects, bailouts, and sinecures. That is, if there were a sufficient number of smokers.

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    StevieGee7 months, 2 weeks ago

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    The cigarette tax isn't for financing pork projects. It is actually making smokers pay the extra costs that they create for health care. If they quit smoking the costs for medicare will go down.

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      vettenut7 months, 2 weeks ago

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      Is there a way to "Prop" this story, with one's tongue in one's cheek??????

      LOL!!!

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