Comments on: Is this the most regressive tax in America?

By: Linkdump « Rhymes With Cars & Girls

Linkdump « Rhymes With Cars & Girls — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:15:24 +0000

[...] Cigarette taxes, the most regressive tax in America. [...]

By: shirleyelizabeth

shirleyelizabeth — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:03:16 +0000

When I started traveling I learned that countries (and states even) have different smells (an obvious thing, but something you don’t think about if you stay in one place). Mexico smells like crap. You have to get into the ocean and under the water before you’re free of it. The Western and Northern European countries smell like smoke. I don’t think there’s any way to escape it.

What gets me is that ObamaCare is said to leverage hefty taxes against those who smoke. I had thought they had been paying in their share for years with what we’ve been taking from them.

(Aside from my beloved Arizona – which has a smell I can’t place since it’s home base – California has to have my favorite smell (at the right time, of course). In the morning before it gets too smoggy the air is so wet and full and…planty.)

By: Oldflyer

Oldflyer — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 02:00:12 +0000

As a reformed smoker for over 20 years, I have no stake in the game. Still, I hate the hypocrisy.
Even as the politicians and “public Nannies” rant about the evils of smoking, they keep the activity legal so that they can tax the smokers unmercifully.

By: Mike Devx

Mike Devx — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 01:45:42 +0000

To me, it’s just one example of using taxation as social policy. ”Sin taxes” are taxes covering undesirable but legal behavior, and state and national legislatures tend to treat sin taxes as a separate category from other taxes.