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Non-Tech : Philip Morris - A Stock For Wealth Or Poverty (MO) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ralph Bergmann who wrote (1626)	5/19/1998 12:05:00 PM
From: Davd S. Carson	Respond to of 6439

To all: Once again, the middle and upper class are able to foist off on the poor another tax. Want to provide more health care, child care, etc. Tax the hell out of cigs, but call it "protecting the Youth". Want to build a new stadium, sell lottery tickets. Yet another moron tax. No matter how you slice it or dice it, the charge against tobacco is a tax. The tax will be paid by smokers. Smokers are typically poor, lower class. The problem with the liberal politicians is that they think that the smoke screen of protecting youth will protect them from the tax label. Just wait, the smart politicians (yes I know that this is an oxymoron) are going to start rallying the poor over this tax increase. At lease I don't have to pay for it.