Hope & Change: Let’s Tax Poor People April 1 2009
This is so great, I can’t stand it.
After promising repeatedly there’d be no tax hikes and in fact 95% of Americans would get tax cuts, our Dear Leader got his way on tobacco taxes.
-Cigarettes: $1 per pack (up from 39 cents)
-Small cigars: $50 per 1,000 (up from $1.80)
-Snuff: $1.51 per pound (up from 58.5 cents)
-Pipe tobacco: $2.831 per pound (up from $1. 097)
-Chewing tobacco: 50.3 cents per pound (up from 19.5 cents)
-Roll-your-own tobacco: $24.78 per pound (up from $1. 097)
-Cigarette wrappers: 1.2 cents per 50 (up from 1.2 cents)
-Cigarette tubes: 12.4 cents per 50 (up from 6.3 cents)
60 cents on a pack of smokes isn’t going to break a rich person’s back… but a poor smoker? That adds up to a hit.
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