Daily, we hear the lies that today’s politicians spew out about needed to tax smokers more and more so that they will quit, to fund programs to help them quit and to prevent teens from picking up the habit in the first place, but what they are not telling you is that only a small portion of that $2.33 cents per pack that the federal government collects ever get’s to one of the programs or cost adjustments that the laws we put in place to do. So what are they being used for?
We will go through a surprising list of where these taxes go to and who benefits from them. Dump trucks, golf carts and a course irrigation system, and a new county jail is one group of projects that was paid for with tobacco taxes that were supposed to be used to help smokers kick the habit and offset health care cost that is claimed that smokers created. This was in New York, but wait…it get’s worse.
If you are reading this in Virginia reading this online, then you can thank a smoker because tobacco taxes were used to setup broadband internet for private and public companies, and some of these were for profit. So it is public monies used for private investments. Pretty cool.
Operating expenses for the Carolina Horse Park. What does this have to do with tobacco taxes? Are they using the horses to experiment the effects of tobacco on horses or something like that? No, not at all, it is just another private venture funded with “sin” taxes levied on the already overtaxed smokers with no redress. More of “just tax the smokers to death before they die from tobacco”.
Upgrading public television stations with DVD technology in Nevada. This is another one that really caught my eye, but again, what does it have to do with helping reduce health care cost, helping smokers, prevention of teen smoking, or anything to do with tobacco in any way shape or form.
The only money I found spent on tobacco related issues is paid to non governmental agencies that lobby against tobacco usage and therefore supporting more and heavier taxes on tobacco users.
Why does the government not write legislation that really harms the tobacco industry? Why was Philip Morris the company that wrote the newly passed Family Smoking and Prevention Act? Does anyone know that the bill done nothing but protect Philip Morris from other tobacco companies getting into the game, resulting in the banning of the clove cigarette, who had a growing following that was taking market share from Philip Morris?
Could it be that the government has found a group of people who have and addiction, a group that knows they have an unhealthy habit and are remorseful and are easy to target for crazy taxes that no other American has to bear, even though they only account for 1/5th of the population?
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