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06-06-2006, 08:41 AM
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| Forte User 
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Flat Rock, Michigan
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 | Wow am I glad I don't smoke and live in Michigan! http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll...TICS/606060397 All I can say is Wow!  I guess Michigan is just a little cash strapped eh? |
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06-06-2006, 08:49 AM
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| Moderator Fortissimo User 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Metro Detroit
Brand: Eclipse
Posts: 3,650
| To me it's another inflammatory headline. The poor and elderly are not being singled out. All people in Michigan pay the same amount of tobacco tax. The headline makes it appear that the poor and elderly have to pay more. Sad journalism. -cw- |
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06-06-2006, 09:21 AM
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| Forte User
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Flat Rock, Michigan
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| Yeah the headline is mis-leading but aren't most these days? Good point Chuck! |
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06-06-2006, 09:52 AM
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| Mezzo Piano User 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Virginia
Posts: 553
| Yup......just another situation that demonstrates these taxes are about getting money and not about stopping smoking. In addition to the well off people that also pay these taxes it's a way of adding poor people to the tax base. Sin taxes and the lottery are pretty ingenious ways to obtain money from the poor who pay little tax in other areas. |
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