WA lawmakers light up plan for cigarette tax hike

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...these taxes are only going to the poorest in this state. Oh no question that cigarettes make a lot of money ~ for the rich. Already the poor pays the highest proportion of their income in taxes, almost 20% of their meager income. So an average Social Security is about $9000 a year. Do the math. What in taxes are they already paying out of that? Almost $2000. that is beyond sinful, that is outright cruelty.

Yes the poor smoke. A lot. They work their butts off making ends meet, they pay and pay those regressive taxes and the price of staying barely above water is the fear, exhaustion, tears, smoking is one way they cope. . If you think piling more taxes on is somehow a will stop it? Addiction is a bitch, Love. It just makes it harder, puts more taxes on people who have already more than enough to pay. so IMO people should not get so hopped up with this.

Smokers have already been paying enough for the medical issues smoking brings. To a pack that costs almost $11.00, the pack itself costs less than $2.00. Once a day pack every day pays about $9.00 a pack X 30 days in a month = $270 a month. .that is almost a health insurance payment already..

So yay, they want to add more taxes, whoopie do! Meanwhile the rich pay zero for their yachts and jets, and if they paid what I paid, just, ONE of those tax deadbeats would balance our budget, just ONE! Boeing has not paid a red cent in my state in decades and they keep whining and threatening to leave our state if they do not get them. All of them if they paid what the poor pay would leave this state swimming in money that would pay those taxes you want to be paid. Me too, II am no tax deadbeat. I make a greater sacrifice than any other class.

Check out who pays taxes It is already frightening, but the reliance all the other classes rely on the poor to pay everybody else's way, well it makes me sick!
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Cat in Seattle ,

Oh and PeeEss: I do not smoke, but I did for 40 years. I got so sick I had to quit. But to tell you the truth that was the only way I was able to do it.
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