Word: taxesã
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...smokers earning less than $30,000 will pay more than half of the price incresases created by the cigarette tax. Less than 1 percent will be paid by smokers with annual incomes over $100,000. For that reason, a tax on tobacco is probably the most regressive of all taxes??more so than taxes on beer or gasoline. This tax is an unfair transfer of wealth from poor smokers to more affluent non-smokers. If prices rise by $2 per pack, a two-pack-a-day smoker will be hit with $1,460 in added expense each year...
...There needs to be an appropriate in lieu of tax payment,” he added, referring to the annual payment that the universities give to the city annually instead of taxes??always a matter of contention...