A little hope

[thassanice]

This article gave me a little more hope that the proposed cigar tax may have some trouble ahead.

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/07/25/Business/Senator_caught_in_cig.shtml

[tzaddi]

This article gave me a little more hope that the proposed cigar tax may have some trouble ahead.

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/07/25/Business/Senator_caught_in_cig.shtml

Good find and one of the first articles that spells out the woes fo the cigar industry. Plus it mentioned Club Stogie with a link, expect and influx of new members.

Thanks for digging it up.

[Tuxguy]

Cool, I am in the Tampa/Orlando area, glad to see some of our emails are working. Atleast enough for Clubstogie to get a mention!!

[thassanice]

More hope:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/us/25health.html

Snippet:

WASHINGTON, July 24 — Republican leaders of the House and Senate on Tuesday attacked proposals that call for a major expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program, to be financed with higher tobacco taxes.
“Republicans (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/r/republican_party/index.html?inline=nyt-org) will fight these proposals,” said the House Republican leader, Representative John A. Boehner (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/john_a_boehner/index.html?inline=nyt-per) of Ohio.
In an unexpected turn of events, the top two Republicans in the Senate, Mitch McConnell (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/mitch_mcconnell/index.html?inline=nyt-per) of Kentucky and Trent Lott (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/trent_lott/index.html?inline=nyt-per) of Mississippi, said they opposed a bipartisan bill that the Senate Finance Committee approved last week and would offer an alternative on the Senate floor.

[thassanice]

I found an article on the house version of the SCHIP bill with no mention of a tax on cigars. Can anyone confirm that the house bill lacks the provisions for the cigar tax? Seems like this would have to be resolved in a conference committee where hopefully the cigar tax may be left out.

Here's the article I found:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/4996097.html

[thassanice]

The house version also appears to have a smaller tax on cigarettes if that interests anyone....

[macjoe53]

I found an article on the house version of the SCHIP bill with no mention of a tax on cigars. Can anyone confirm that the house bill lacks the provisions for the cigar tax? Seems like this would have to be resolved in a conference committee where hopefully the cigar tax may be left out.

Here's the article I found:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/4996097.html

The reporter who wrote that article (or the editor) left out the information on the cigar tax. Probably for one of two reasons or both:

1. Didn't have enough space available for the article to include all the information and decided mentioning the cigar tax was not necessary.
2. The reporter (and/or editor) is a anti-smoking Nazi who wanted to hide the truth about the tobacco tax.

[screwbag]

Damn Smoke Nazis!!!