Cigarettes, beer and sin taxes
Gotta love our state legislature. We're in a recession. People are losing their jobs, gasoline prices are through the roof, and they want to raise taxes. It's the kind of regressive tax that really hurts the poor. Way to go Cali. Here's something on its way from the SJ Merc:
Cigarettes have been heavily taxed in California to pay for health care, why not beer and booze wonders a South Bay Assemblyman. Jim Beall's bill to impose such a tax has passed its first committee hurdle, but faces stiff odds of becoming law. It would take a two-thirds vote of both houses of the Legislature, and GOP lawmakers are dead set against any new taxes.
Why not? The story follows on the heels of a misguided Pasadena attempt to stamp out smoking practically anywhere in town. So let's put two and two together...if you stamp out smoking you lose tax revenue as the number of smokers decreases. So why not move toward more taxes on alcohol? Does anyone wonder what effect it would have on the state's wine industry? What happens when the nanny state moves toward banishing alcohol...where's the next revenue stream? Figure that one out and you can probably run for office...
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I don't get these liberals sometimes.
A lot of the same people whining about cigarettes are the people who want to legalize marijuana.
Makes my brain want to blow up.
Conservatives are often in favor of sin taxes because it taxes the correct elements and leaves high income earners relatively untouched. It is usually libertarians who are consistently outraged by this and all other taxes.
See, that's why I'm a real Republican. Just ask Brian Kennedy from the Claremont Institute.
I believe in protecting our borders, securing our nation from terrorism et al., and personal freedoms.
Conservatives have ruined the Republican party.
Liberals have infiltrated the Dems and made them the biggest pussies ever.
"I believe in protecting our borders, securing our nation from terrorism et al., and personal freedoms."
Good news the Army is hiring and they offer tuition assistance benefits.