Increase in Cigarette tax from roughly 80 cents to $2.50 on ballot in Colorado

ColonelAngus

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It's statistically proven that smokers earn less than non smokers.

This tax will punish the poor. Why are liberals so cruel? They obviously hate the poor.
 
There is an initiative in CA to raise the tax an additional two dollars. That would make a pack of cigs $11.00. Call it the Sinaloa to Zeta full employment act.

Swap meets, flea markets and Mexican garage sales fix that right up.
 
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Exactly, the black market will be more active.

Liberals love to make decisions for you.

Cigarettes should either be legal or illegal. Taxes of over 100% is ridiculous.

It's so odd. For libs, Weed = Good. Tobacco = Bad.

Sit back and let them decide how YOU should live YOUR life.
 
It's statistically proven that smokers earn less than non smokers.

This tax will punish the poor. Why are liberals so cruel? They obviously hate the poor.


It's been statistically proven since the 1960s that smoking kills before it runs up the cost of medical care FOR ALL.


So do fat fucks who eat doughnuts and don't exercise. By your logic, we should have a VERY high tax on anything with sugar. Maybe we should charge an extra income tax on those who do not exercise.

Explain to me the logic of the tax. Is it going to healthcare? Specifically how much of the tax is going to healthcare for smokers?
 
Exactly, the black market will be more active.

Liberals love to make decisions for you.

Cigarettes should either be legal or illegal. Taxes of over 100% is ridiculous.

It's so odd. For libs, Weed = Good. Tobacco = Bad.

Sit back and let them decide how YOU should live YOUR life.
Only about 20% of Americans identify as liberals

Most Americans Identify as Either Conservative or Moderate


Unfortunately, the 20% seem to be running the show for the rest of us because our Republican congress are on the Washington gravy train.
 
I propose a 200% tax on all ice cream/doughnuts/high carbohydrates and those who are too fat and lazy to exercise.

It's been statistically proven that being a lazy fat fuck kills before it runs up the cost of medical care FOR ALL.
 
It's so odd. For libs, Weed = Good. Tobacco = Bad.
So they don't tax pot, eh?

Wrong!

Colorado Raised More Tax Revenue From Marijuana Than Alcohol
It clocked in at $70 million last fiscal year alone.

The difference is the Tax on Tobacco is becoming far more punitive than simple revenue enhancement.

The irony of all this is the government is at the same time fighting the "improved cigarette", otherwise known as vaping. It removes all of the detriments of combustion products, and allows nicotine absorption without the said combustion product issues.
 
Exactly, the black market will be more active.

Liberals love to make decisions for you.

Cigarettes should either be legal or illegal. Taxes of over 100% is ridiculous.

It's so odd. For libs, Weed = Good. Tobacco = Bad.

Sit back and let them decide how YOU should live YOUR life.
Only about 20% of Americans identify as liberals

Most Americans Identify as Either Conservative or Moderate
That poll is 13 years old.

As I have said many, many times, Bush and the pseudocons have destroyed the Republican and conservative brands.

So guess what? Liberals and conservatives are now tied at 31 percent.

On Social Ideology, the Left Catches Up to the Right

63r3nd.jpg
 
Exactly, the black market will be more active.

Liberals love to make decisions for you.

Cigarettes should either be legal or illegal. Taxes of over 100% is ridiculous.

It's so odd. For libs, Weed = Good. Tobacco = Bad.

Sit back and let them decide how YOU should live YOUR life.
Only about 20% of Americans identify as liberals

Most Americans Identify as Either Conservative or Moderate


Unfortunately, the 20% seem to be running the show for the rest of us because our Republican congress are on the Washington gravy train.

Move to Kentucky. they still give out free samples of cigarettes at church socials.....
 
Exactly, the black market will be more active.

Liberals love to make decisions for you.

Cigarettes should either be legal or illegal. Taxes of over 100% is ridiculous.

It's so odd. For libs, Weed = Good. Tobacco = Bad.

Sit back and let them decide how YOU should live YOUR life.
Only about 20% of Americans identify as liberals

Most Americans Identify as Either Conservative or Moderate


Unfortunately, the 20% seem to be running the show for the rest of us because our Republican congress are on the Washington gravy train.
you missed the point Im tryin to say not everything is defined by "liberals vs conservatives"..... no matter what fox news says
 
Exactly, the black market will be more active.

Liberals love to make decisions for you.

Cigarettes should either be legal or illegal. Taxes of over 100% is ridiculous.

It's so odd. For libs, Weed = Good. Tobacco = Bad.

Sit back and let them decide how YOU should live YOUR life.
Only about 20% of Americans identify as liberals

Most Americans Identify as Either Conservative or Moderate
That poll is 13 years old.

As I have said many, many times, Bush and the pseudocons have destroyed the Republican and conservative brands.

So guess what? Liberals and conservatives are now tied at 31 percent.

On Social Ideology, the Left Catches Up to the Right

63r3nd.jpg
thats interesting and turns out your right there as been a slight increase to 24% as 2015, not 31% thats a different poll

U.S. Liberals at Record 24%, but Still Trail Conservatives
Conservatives Hang On to Ideology Lead by a Thread
 
It's so odd. For libs, Weed = Good. Tobacco = Bad.
So they don't tax pot, eh?

Wrong!

Colorado Raised More Tax Revenue From Marijuana Than Alcohol
It clocked in at $70 million last fiscal year alone.

The difference is the Tax on Tobacco is becoming far more punitive than simple revenue enhancement.

The irony of all this is the government is at the same time fighting the "improved cigarette", otherwise known as vaping. It removes all of the detriments of combustion products, and allows nicotine absorption without the said combustion product issues.
Taxes on cigarettes and booze (and now pot) are classic Pigovian taxes.

I have mixed feelings about Pigovian taxes. On the one hand, they are consumption taxes and thus reduce the pressure to increase taxes on production. On the other hand, they are pure social engineering by the government.
 
Exactly, the black market will be more active.

Liberals love to make decisions for you.

Cigarettes should either be legal or illegal. Taxes of over 100% is ridiculous.

It's so odd. For libs, Weed = Good. Tobacco = Bad.

Sit back and let them decide how YOU should live YOUR life.
Only about 20% of Americans identify as liberals

Most Americans Identify as Either Conservative or Moderate
That poll is 13 years old.

As I have said many, many times, Bush and the pseudocons have destroyed the Republican and conservative brands.

So guess what? Liberals and conservatives are now tied at 31 percent.

On Social Ideology, the Left Catches Up to the Right

63r3nd.jpg
thats interesting and turns out your right there as been a slight increase to 24% as 2015, not 31% thats a different poll

U.S. Liberals at Record 24%, but Still Trail Conservatives
Conservatives Hang On to Ideology Lead by a Thread
The most significant thing about this trend:
Over time, the growth of liberals and conservatives has come at the expense of moderates
 
It's so odd. For libs, Weed = Good. Tobacco = Bad.
So they don't tax pot, eh?

Wrong!

Colorado Raised More Tax Revenue From Marijuana Than Alcohol
It clocked in at $70 million last fiscal year alone.

The difference is the Tax on Tobacco is becoming far more punitive than simple revenue enhancement.

The irony of all this is the government is at the same time fighting the "improved cigarette", otherwise known as vaping. It removes all of the detriments of combustion products, and allows nicotine absorption without the said combustion product issues.
Taxes on cigarettes and booze (and now pot) are classic Pigovian taxes.

I have mixed feelings about Pigovian taxes. On the one hand, they are consumption taxes and thus reduce the pressure to increase taxes on production. On the other hand, they are pure social engineering by the government.
its more of a sin tax, than a pigovian tax
 
Exactly, the black market will be more active.

Liberals love to make decisions for you.

Cigarettes should either be legal or illegal. Taxes of over 100% is ridiculous.

It's so odd. For libs, Weed = Good. Tobacco = Bad.

Sit back and let them decide how YOU should live YOUR life.
Only about 20% of Americans identify as liberals

Most Americans Identify as Either Conservative or Moderate
That poll is 13 years old.

As I have said many, many times, Bush and the pseudocons have destroyed the Republican and conservative brands.

So guess what? Liberals and conservatives are now tied at 31 percent.

On Social Ideology, the Left Catches Up to the Right

63r3nd.jpg
thats interesting and turns out your right there as been a slight increase to 24% as 2015, not 31% thats a different poll

U.S. Liberals at Record 24%, but Still Trail Conservatives
Conservatives Hang On to Ideology Lead by a Thread
The most significant thing about this trend:
Over time, the growth of liberals and conservatives has come at the expense of moderates
Filthy neutrals

 

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