Sentences with phrase «a-pack cigarette tax»

A 50 - cents - a-pack cigarette tax, projected to bring in $ 700 million a year, will be used to supplement health care, child care, parent education, and other programs to help newborns to 5 - year - olds.

Several lobbyists and political operatives said the imposition of stricter tax collection on reservations would give the governor leverage in bargaining with lawmakers to approve an additional $ 1 - a-pack cigarette tax statewide.

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-- With Florida facing a shrinking population for the first time since World War II, Republican Gov. Charlie Crist and the GOP - controlled Legislature balanced a $ 5.9 billion shortfall with cuts, federal stimulus money and tax hikes, including a $ 1 - a-pack tax increase on cigarettes.

The measure, HR 3128 — the major deficit - reduction legislation crafted on Capitol Hill in the first session of the 99th Congress — also contained a permanent extension of the 16 - cents - a-pack tax on cigarettes, but lawmakers passed a separate extension...