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Smokers Unite !!!
With giant holes in state budgets from coast to coast, governors and legislators are all chasing after smokers, the only taxpaying class that refuses to defend itself.
Smokers could sway elections and capture entire states if they voted as a group, but they've been so beaten down about their habit that they won't even stand up for themselves!
The antismoking activists insist they are protecting the young and the impressionable. We are grown-ups. We know what we are doing. We need to speak up.
CONTACT YOUR 2 MICHIGAN SENATORS !!
Carl Levin (202)224-6221 Online contact form: levin.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm
Debbie Stabenow (202)224-4822 Online form: stabenow.senate.gov/email.cfm
CONTACT YOUR CITY OF KALAMAZOO REPRESENTATIVE !!
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Stop Pipe Tobacco Tax Increase!
Statewide Smoking Ban
Dec. 10, 2009 Michigan approves smoking ban, with exceptions for 3 Detroit casinos, cigar bars, specialty tobacco shops, home offices and motor vehicles. Smoking is banned in workplaces and food service establishments, including bars, restaurants, food courts, cafeterias and private clubs.
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MICHIGAN
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Stop Tobacco Tax
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Tobacco products are taxed in two different categories: cigarette excise taxes and OTP (Other Tobacco Products) excise taxes. OTP constitutes all tobacco products other than cigarettes - cigars, snuff, chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco, etc. More often than not, OTP excise taxes are targeted for increases along with mass-marketed cigarettes. |
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Premium, handmade cigars constitute only 8.8% of all OTP excise taxes collected at the federal level. Increasing OTP tax rates generates no significant revenue, and in fact, would most likely decrease current revenue. |
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Since 2000, federal and state governments have increased their cigarette excise tax rates 79 times. In fiscal year 2006, federal and state governments received $21.5 billion in cigarette tax revenues, compared to $13.1 billion in 1999. "This trend is unfair to adult smokers and tobocco retailers", Phillip Morris USA |
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Write, Call, Fax or
Email your Senators,
Representatives,
Mayor and
Governor |
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Consumers shop for the lowest price on a product. |
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Excessive taxation drive consumers out of state or to the internet, resulting in fewer taxes collected for the state. |
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