Socialist Dems Go Berserk on Taxes, Again: 156% Tax on Tobacco! ... WASHINGTON - Congressional Democrats have chosen an unlikely source to pay for the bulk of their proposed $35 billion increase in children's health coverage: people with relatively little money and education. ... The program expansion passed by the House and Senate last week would be financed with a 156 percent increase in the federal cigarette tax, taking it to $1 per pack from the current 39 cents. ... Bush has proposed a more modest growth for the program, and both political parties seem inclined to pay for it through a tax on an unpopular group, cigarette smokers.... (alt.politics)
Re: Cut-price alcohol and cigarettes from the Continent ... you'll be paying out in extra income tax.... No, but the smokers get to smile at last, as the are forced to both ... while knowing they are not subsidising the ... to pay their own way in life without sponging off smokers. ... (uk.legal)
Re: anyone know any good truck driver newsgroups? ... Besides, if I did, like you, harden my heart to the world around me, those two would in fact soon pass away, and guess who'd have to heal my wife's grief, who'd have to pay for the burials and settle their outstanding bills.... I worked in the field for many years; I have been CFO of a Texas corporation auto dealership; I operated my own bookkeeping and tax service for six years. ... As to the wife's substantial earnings: if you have used even a nickel of it for living expenses and/or investments, then this alone negates your entire argument; that anyone can become a millionaire in a few years on even a trucker's earnings. ... (misc.transport.trucking)
