Yes Obama the so-called champion of the poor drops a another huge tax on them so the poor can be a little poorer. Obama said in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12…
“I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”
He repeatedly vowed “you will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.”
Well he raised the cigarette tax .62 cents a pack, jacking it up to $1.01 per pack. Studies show that the poor are more likely yo smoke than the rich that is the usual target of Obama wrath. A Gallup survey of 75,000 people last year fleshed out that conclusion. It found that 34 percent of respondents earning $6,000 to $12,000 were smokers, and the smoking rate consistently declined among people of higher income. Only 13 percent of people earning $90,000 or more were smokers.
And with many states raising those same cigarette taxes as much as a $1.00 a pack or more on top of the already excessive tax and add in various other vice taxes then to add insult to injury Obama wants to start a cap and trade tax that will drive energy cost up as much as $3000 per family, it would seem that under Obama the poor get poorer.
PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama tax pledge up in smoke
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I won't lose any sleep over the poor paying more tax money on cigarettes because guess who pays for their medical bills?
Instead of just targeting smokers I think they should jack up taxes on Alcohol and fast food 100% too
One problem with that, the insurance industry has completed several studies that has shown smokers cost LESS in medical health care than non-smokers do to there rather speedy deaths and not long drawn out longterm health issues of old age. But yet they continue to charge the smokers much higher rates for premiums than non smokers. Kentucky doubled alcohol and tobacco tax on April 1st and tobacco and bourbon is the states main cash crop … pure genius.
One problem with that, the insurance industry has completed several studies that has shown smokers cost LESS in medical health care than non-smokers do to there rather speedy deaths and not long drawn out longterm health issues of old age. But yet they continue to charge the smokers much higher rates for premiums than non smokers. Kentucky doubled alcohol and tobacco tax on April 1st and tobacco and bourbon is the states main cash crop … pure genius.
One problem with that, the insurance industry has completed several studies that has shown smokers cost LESS in medical health care than non-smokers do to there rather speedy deaths and not long drawn out longterm health issues of old age. But yet they continue to charge the smokers much higher rates for premiums than non smokers. Kentucky doubled alcohol and tobacco tax on April 1st and tobacco and bourbon is the states main cash crop … pure genius.
One problem with that, the insurance industry has completed several studies that has shown smokers cost LESS in medical health care than non-smokers do to there rather speedy deaths and not long drawn out longterm health issues of old age. But yet they continue to charge the smokers much higher rates for premiums than non smokers. Kentucky doubled alcohol and tobacco tax on April 1st and tobacco and bourbon is the states main cash crop … pure genius.
Yeah, and I own a Mustang, so I could make up a study that proves that speeding causes less accidents than drunk drivers. But the pigs prey on speeders for easy money, they have to work at it a little to get a drunk driver.
Same thing with the tobacco tax only a different venue,
I think that a lot more of the health problems in this country are caused by overindulgence in food with high fat content, i.e. fast food but they won't get after that because it might offend obese people or put a bit of a pinch in the fast food industry so they just may have to work at it, probably not going to happen any time soon.