by Jo | October 22nd, 2007
Read the below paragrah and tell me what you get from it. No prize to be bestowed, just want to see if anyone else catches what I did.
The budget agreement uses a $1 per pack increase in the cigarette tax to help pay for health care programs. They include plans to make all children and thousands of low-income adults eligible for state-subsidized health insurance and to spend $30 million in smoking prevention programs.
Did you catch it?
No?
Read it again … slowly.
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October 22nd, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Hmmm… I do see this…
“… all children and thousands of low-income adults…”
Looks like the first phase of a nationalized healthcare system.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Of course, if that $30 million to prevent smoking actually works, there goes the money for the health coverage.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Ding Ding Ding!!! You got it Redoubt … only liberals would fund something and then try and stop the funding !
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Yeah, there’s your liberal train of thought in all its glory. Try to get folks to stop smoking, rightly so, then tax the cigarettes and use the money for health care programs. It is mostly the very poor and needy that smoke and they will see additional taxes thanks to their Dem friends.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:42 pm
We are smokers and AL has a sin tax on cigarettes, so we buy ours in GA. There are ways around it for folks - but, once they implement this tax and spend - and the tax dries up, they’ll just shift it to the tax payer’s dole and keep moving on into the Government run Healthcare just like Hillarycare.