Maine Legislature's Tobacco Tax Scam!
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According to a story in the Bangor Daily News Maine ranks 6th nationally on what it spends for stop-smoking programs.
State 6th in protecting children from tobacco
..."Maine spends $11.8 million a year on tobacco prevention and cessation programs, which is 63.6 percent of the $18.5 million recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
..."Maine this year will collect $195 million from tobacco taxes and the 1998 settlement with tobacco companies, but will spend just 6 percent of it on preventing tobacco use"....
Huh? But Virginia we were told it was all about quitting smoking. Turns out it was really about just another way to rob people to obtain funding to run the ever expanding socialist agenda.
Just 6% of it spent on anti-smoking programs and the other 94% a grab bag for government?
I love public policy issues enacted by liars and con artists.
WC
I said on these pages from the beginning that it was only about the money.
Bunch of hypocrites!
WC
I'm just going from memory here, but I think this has been part and parcel of Maine smoking cessation programs since day one.
skf
What does/ has 11 million bought in the last year?
Given that taxes have done more than anyother program to reduce smoking one has to wonder.
I really don't see the anti-smoking ads that were on/in media in past.
Why not put an end to this scam, and really show that indeed, the emperor has no clothes. It's rather simply, but takes a little courage, and fortitude. STOP SMOKING!!
There, don't you feel better now!!
Why thank you Hatchcar you are correct, that is what I did years ago,motivaated by Maine taxes at time
compared to Georgias cig. tax. In the end it is what works.
Lots of Mainers die in auto crashes each year.
Why not raise the taxes on autos high enough so that eventually no one will buy a car. They can justify if by calling it all about safety.
Isn't it the same thing?
Seems to be more inportant, much more, as to just whose ox is being gored.
Since booze seems to be the drug of choice for those politically connected, where smoking seems to be the choice of rednecks and other no-accounts, is it any wonder the tax on that seems far more stable?
WC
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The answer is...! I wonder if the local community garden will allow me to plant these?
http://www.virtualseeds.com/tobacco-main.html
charlie