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[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

And really, smokers already are doing that, via the taxes they pay on every package of cigarettes.

Only that tax money is going into the general fund like SS payments and everything else to pay for things like a billion dollars to the Muslim Brotherhood, 3 billion to destroy cars and untold billions wasted bringing in, educating, insuring and housing illegals.

It should be solely dedicated to lung cancer and related illnesses and anyone selling cigarettes w/o paying the tax should be choked out.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Only that tax money is going into the general fund like SS payments and everything else to pay for things like a billion dollars to the Muslim Brotherhood, 3 billion to destroy cars and untold billions wasted bringing in, educating, insuring and housing illegals.

It should be solely dedicated to lung cancer and related illnesses and anyone selling cigarettes w/o paying the tax should be choked out.

No, it's not, because the states tax it, not the feds. Le sigh.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

No, it's not, because the states tax it, not the feds. Le sigh.

Wanna bet?

I'll give you a chance to google before you decide.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Wanna bet?

I'll give you a chance to google before you decide.

Ok I can't take your money

In the United States cigarettes are taxed at both the federal and state levels, in addition to any state and local sales taxes and local cigarette-specific taxes. Cigarette taxation has appeared throughout American history and is still a contested issue today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigaret..._United_States

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Ok I can't take your money



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigaret..._United_States

As someone who has never purchased a pack of cigarettes in my life, I fully cop to be ignorant of how much tax is on them. That said, I did google, and the Feds collect about $14 million a year on them. Explain to me, how that amounts to, in your words:
"a billion dollars to the Muslim Brotherhood, 3 billion to destroy cars and untold billions wasted bringing in, educating, insuring and housing illegals."

Because, thanks to the same google, this is what I read about what the recent federal excise increase has gone to:

"On February 4, 2009, the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 was signed into law, which raised the federal tax rate for cigarettes on April 1, 2009 from $0.39 per pack to $1.01 per pack.[8][9] The purpose of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is to provide aid for impoverished children. SCHIP expanded its coverage of liability (in 2009) to include families with up to three times the federal poverty level as well as children from high-income families in New York and New Jersey. SCHIP is proposed to also cover dental benefits and treatment of mental illnesses where it previously did not exist. In addition to providing these services for U.S. citizens, SCHIP is also expanded to cover immigrant children and immigrant pregnant women.[10]"

Maybe that's what you meant by "educating, insuring and housing illegals?" Getting health care to poor kids and pregnant women? Dude, you're harsh.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

As someone who has never purchased a pack of cigarettes in my life, I fully cop to be ignorant of how much tax is on them. That said, I did google, and the Feds collect about $14 million a year on them. Explain to me, how that amounts to, in your words:
"a billion dollars to the Muslim Brotherhood, 3 billion to destroy cars and untold billions wasted bringing in, educating, insuring and housing illegals."

Because, thanks to the same google, this is what I read about what the recent federal excise increase has gone to:

"On February 4, 2009, the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 was signed into law, which raised the federal tax rate for cigarettes on April 1, 2009 from $0.39 per pack to $1.01 per pack.[8][9] The purpose of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is to provide aid for impoverished children. SCHIP expanded its coverage of liability (in 2009) to include families with up to three times the federal poverty level as well as children from high-income families in New York and New Jersey. SCHIP is proposed to also cover dental benefits and treatment of mental illnesses where it previously did not exist. In addition to providing these services for U.S. citizens, SCHIP is also expanded to cover immigrant children and immigrant pregnant women.[10]"

Maybe that's what you meant by "educating, insuring and housing illegals?" Getting health care to poor kids and pregnant women? Dude, you're harsh.

And there but for the grace of god (or the flying spaghetti monster, or woden) go all of us.
I deal every day with people from every walk of life. I think it has really helped me to learn, to understand, and to have some empathy. Many of us are a catastophe or less away from having a completely changed life.

[Pants II]

There is an article on the 'fringe' news sites about 3 billion of the treasury being used to fund the ongoing lie that is Obamacare.

No big deal.