Single Item Taxes

[luinil]

No, I don't agree with single item taxes. This disproportionately effects the lower class and poor. More lower class and poor ppl are smokers than the upper income brackets. The more you tax a single item the less that item is purchased/used.

Now you could say that these people that smoke are stupid and need to stop smoking so we are going to tax the bejeebus out of it to encourage non-use. But they are counting on increased tax revenue from this and are putting it toward SCHIP. Once the funds dry up from taxing the poor, the burden will shift to a new group of people, since the entitlement program won't be allowed to do with less funding.