{"id":678,"date":"2009-04-02T08:04:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T08:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=678"},"modified":"2009-04-02T08:04:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T08:04:06","slug":"smoke_gets_in_your_eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Breitbart.com<\/font><\/a> has a comment on President Obama’s broken promise on no tax increases on people who make less than $250,000 a year.  President Obama, who stopped smoking but has admitted he slips now and then, signed a law raising the tobacco tax nearly 62 cents on a pack of cigarettes, to $1.01. Other tobacco products saw similarly steep increases.  Somehow I suspect that many of the people who smoke make less than $250,000 a year; and their taxes just went up!<\/font><\/h4>\n

Meanwhile–the graph below shows how much money the government spends on tobacco subsidies.  I copied the graph from the Farm Subsidy Database from the Environmental Working Group<\/a> website.  I don’t have any later figures than 2003, so I don’t know if the government has changed its policy.  I do find it interesting that they are raising taxes on a product that they are subsidizing–why not just end the subsidies and save the money?<\/p>\n

Tobacco Subsidies by year, U.S. Total<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Year<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\nTobacco Subsidies<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1995<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n$0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1996<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n$0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1997<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n$0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n$0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1999<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n$0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n$345,123,312<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2001<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n$129,247,286<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n$4,990,960<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n$51,121,183<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n$5,281<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n$0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n$0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n$530,488,022<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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