Yes on Raising Tobacco Taxes, as Prop B Asks?
Missouri voters will be asked on Nov. 6 to consider a ballot question raising tobacco taxes from 17 to 90 cents on name-brand cigarettes; off brands, the hike is larger.
It's one of those hyper-divisive issues, and it's on the ballot on Nov. 6. Why is Proposition B so divisive? Well, for starters, it involves two relatively unpopular practices: raising taxes and smoking. But here's the thing: If you don't smoke, do you really care about raising taxes on smokers? And if you smoke, are you ever going to vote for a hike in tobacco taxes? That's what Prop B is about. In basic English, the measure would boost state taxes from 17 to 90 cents on name-brand cigarettes. For off-brands, the state tax would rise to $1.47 a pack. In the less-plain language of the actual ballot question, Prop B would: In the shorthand of the opponents, the measure amounts to a 760 percent tax increase, and they say that's just not …
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Philip
9:30 am on Saturday, November 10, 2012
Cindy C., The tax was just that a tax on a specific item. If the state taxed Sugar for education would you vote for it? If the state taxed doctors for education would you vote for it? I grant you that the law stated "Monies collected from this tax would go towards education." What they did not state was that there would be a separate education fund to contain these monies. Nor did the law state … more ›