The budget gap tops 9 - billion dollars — which means collecting taxes on cigarettes sold on reservations and increasing that tax statewide will really only make a dent in the deficit. (nystateofpolitics.com)
A federal tax on cigarettes that several states are counting on picking up to finance education reform might become a casualty — along with the reforms themselves — of the mounting federal debt. (edweek.org)
He made legislators chop the health care budget and enact a new tax on cigarettes. (politico.com)