re: #188 nines09

So it has come to this. Think long and hard on the tobacco tax. If and when they succeed and outlaw it entirely, where will THAT income come from? Now it may, if certain lawmakers have their way, cost more to just frigging forget who you elected in a certain state. If I owned a micro, I would be packing up about now. [Link: www.kgw.com…]

Thanks for the post and link. It is strange isn’t it, that the same folks who want to ban something also see taxing it as a good way to fund a pet project. And when they succeed at one, they’re left with trying to find alternative funding for the other.

Think the luxury tax back in the early 90’s (thanks Ted Kennedy), and what it did to the yacht builders in Kennedy’s own state (and others).