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Deroy Murdock: Biden's socialist budget torches his
no-tax-hike promises and targets poor, Black smokers
- Leave it to Joe Biden to hike taxes on both those who smoke tobacco and those who are trying to stop smoking tobacco
Joe Biden repeatedly has pledged to raise taxes only on the affluent.
"I promise you, you have my word, if you make less than $400,000 a year, you won’t pay a penny more in taxes," the president told voters in St. Paul, Minnesota on October 30, 2020. According to Americans for Tax Reform, Biden publicly expressed these or equivalent remarks at least 41 other times.
Biden’s highly fluid, accounting-trick laden Build Back Better plan could wind up costing between $1 trillion and $5.7 trillion, once feuding Democrats choose from among their multiple personalities. If they ever organize themselves and pass this socialist monstrosity, it likely will include higher taxes on tobacco and vape products.
According to the Tax Foundation, Biden’s 2,456-page bill, as currently written, proposes a 100 percent increase in cigarette taxes to $2.01 per pack. ($2.00 would be more manageable, but whatever.) The dipping-tobacco tax would climb to $2.01 per can -- up 1,677 percent. The tax on snus tobacco pouches would rise to $2.40 per tin -- up 2,892 percent.
Biden envisions a brand-new federal Vaping Tax. The tax would go from $0.00 today to $2.22 per vaping pod. (What a random number. Why not $2.00 or $2.50? "No, Kamala. Let’s make it $2.22. That will fool ’em!"). Mathematically, the percentage increase in such a Vaping Tax rate would be infinite.
Biden’s Vaping Tax would make it harder and costlier to switch from dangerous tobacco to safer Juul and similar offerings. Let’s call this the Thank You for Smoking Cigarettes Tax.
The tobacco taxes and Vaping Tax also would be gross violations of Biden’s serially shattered promise not to impose new taxes on those who earn less than $400,000.
Smokers tend to be lower-income and disproportionally black.
So, rather than solely shake down the much-maligned 1 percent, Biden cynically wants to pick the pockets of poor Black smokers to fund electric-car subsidies for affluent, mainly white suburbanites.
Deroy Murdock: Biden's socialist budget torches his no-tax-hike promises and targets poor, Black smokers
Biden’s highly fluid, accounting-trick laden Build Back Better plan could wind up costing between $1 trillion and $5.7 trillion.
www.foxnews.com