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Friday, March 5, 2010
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Monday, March 1, 2010
New York, Cigarettes, and the Unintended Consequences
From Robert Clemmer on Monday, January 11, 2010 4:42 PMIn his State of the State address, New York’s Governor Paterson proposed raising the already high $2.75 per pack excise tax on cigarettes. When the state excise tax is combined with local and federal taxes, a pack of cigarettes can cost almost $10, leaving New York with the most expensive cigarettes in the country.
But aren’t high cigarette taxes great? Don’t they bring in more revenue? The idea that raising already high excise taxes to bring in more revenue is ignores a fundamental principle of economics: raising the price of something will always lower the demand of the good. Arkansas, Maryland, New Jersey, and Chicago have all raised cigarette taxes only to have their tax blow up in their face as revenue fails to meet projections.
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Comments
Suggest looking up another unintended consequence. A study I heard about talked about how taxes have basically done all they can to dissuade people from smoking (the nominal reason for the tax). The wealthy have stopped smoking while the poor continue to spend more and more money on expensive cigarettes. Find the study Mr. Clemmer.
>> James Bonney Wednesday, January 13, 2010 9:44 AM
actually there is this study which suggests that tax increases don't do squat when it comes to stopping smoking. http://www.acda-aqda.ca/HEC_MTL_TAX_STUDY_-_EN_final_vers.pdf
>> Algernon Sydney Thursday, January 14, 2010 11:21 AM
Actually, if you go back to '70's when NY did the same thing, those who had cars and who wanted to make a quick buck, went to North/South Carolina/Virginia and bought up all the cigs that money could buy. Sold on the streets of NYC brought in a nice profit. Studies and other intellectual parodies don't mean squat. A lot of us made big bucks; the state of NY and the city lost millions of dollars in revenue. Stop reading studies by the armchair bound metrosexuals and get out on the street to find out what's going on.
>> El Gordo Sunday, January 17, 2010 12:32 AM
Actually, if you go back to '70's when NY did the same thing, those who had cars and who wanted to make a quick buck, went to North/South Carolina/Virginia and bought up all the cigs that money could buy. Sold on the streets of NYC brought in a nice profit. Studies and other intellectual parodies don't mean squat. A lot of us made big bucks; the state of NY and the city lost millions of dollars in revenue. Stop reading studies by the armchair bound metrosexuals and get out on the street to find out what's going on.
>> El Gordo Sunday, January 17, 2010 12:35 AM