To Join The Ranks Of Impoverished Smokers?
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressional Democrats have chosen an unlikely source to pay for the bulk of their proposed $35 billion increase in children's health coverage... a 156 percent increase in the federal cigarette tax... Democrats...do not dispute that the tax plan would hit poor communities disproportionately, but...All the better, they say, if higher cigarette taxes discourage smoking.
"I'm very happy that we're paying for this," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said... Nearly one-third of all U.S. adults living in poverty are smokers, compared with 23.5 percent of those above the poverty level, according to government statistics. "
Rep. Jack Kingston R-Ga.pointed out that funding the bill 'would require 22 million new smokers'
And people wonder if the 2nd Amendment might be unnecessary in this day and age....
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