Ummm..what did they think was going to happen??

[kristin]

State choking as revenue dips on cigarettes
Wisconsin’s cigarette tax collections are going up in smoke with the leading causes including the statewide indoor smoking ban and, ironically, increases in the cigarette tax rate.

State choking as revenue dips on cigarettes | The Business Journal

 

[C-kool Dad '09]

I love it!

 

[electrowoman]

well, we should all apologize for switching to vaping since we are the ones refusing to pay the suicide tax any longer. and certainly not one as HIGH as wisconsin has made it. BTW, cherry flave from fsusa my news craze...my camels never tasted this good!

 

[Vicks Vap-oh-Yeah]

If they'd have kept it real - that the sin tax was raised to make smoking too expensive, and get folk to cut down or quit, and dump the funds into health care and honest risk-education - they wouldn't now be whining.

They tacked a tax increase on to cigs - not for the purposes such a tax was proposed in the first place (too expensive a habit to maintain) - but to balance the budget because they 'have to get the money somewhere, and hitting the unpopular smokers is an EASY tax to pass....'.

Well, what more can I say except - boneheads!

 

[C-kool Dad '09]

Well, what more can I say except - boneheads!

Well said.

 

[kristin]

I guess they never imagined that the unfair smoking tax & indoor bans would actually work (for what they CLAIMED they were for) and get people to cut down on smoking, reducing tobacco tax revenue. boneheads is right, Vicks! LOL!

Now they'll go after smokeless tobacco and e-cigs (even though there is no justification w/ evidence of harm), mark my words.

 

[C-kool Dad '09]

With Snus already at 100% tax on the wholesale price right here in WI.