It was as if it announced
a new tax on cigarettes but exempted all smokers from paying it.
He made legislators chop the health care budget and enact
a new tax on cigarettes.
Not exact matches
A Native American tribe is calling
on New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to either apologize or resign after he said
on a radio show that Gov. David Paterson — who's trying to rustle up millions in
cigarette taxes from the tribes — should grab «a cowboy hat and a shotgun» and demand the money.
Cigarette taxes New York has the fourth - highest state
taxes on cigarettes, but could become No. 1 soon.
A federal judge ruled Friday that United Parcel Service Inc. illegally shipped millions of
cigarettes to
New York state from Indian reservations, opening up the parcel carrier to damages and other penalties for skirting
taxes on tobacco products.
They talked about a number of issues facing the territory, including the economic impact his people have
on the state, the future of gaming in
New York, and the ongoing dispute between the nation and state government over the collection of
cigarette taxes.
State Senator David Carlucci (D - Rockland / Westchester) announced
new legislation to enact a
tax on vapor products used in an electronic
cigarette or other similar device.
The plan has earned the support of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose administration has implemented a host of
new health - conscious regulations including a
cigarette tax and a ban
on trans - fat.
Casino gaming revenues and
taxes on cigarettes have been mounting issues in recent years for Native Americans in the Western
New York region.
In
New York City, which levies steep
taxes of its own
on tobacco products, a pack of
cigarettes would come with a
tax of $ 5.85, making it the nation's first city to break $ 5, antismoking advocates said.
In an interview Wednesday
on WWRL - AM in
New York City, Paterson repeated the session is necessary to close a $ 315 million mid-year budget deficit caused by larger - than - expected Medicaid rolls and the failure to collect
taxes on cigarettes sold
on Indian reservations.
A version of this article appears in print
on June 19, 2010,
on Page A14 of the
New York edition with the headline: State Leaders Agree
on Proposal to Raise
Cigarette Tax by $ 1.60 a Pack.
Last week's failure of a massive tobacco - settlement bill in the Senate added
new urgency to efforts by the Clinton administration and education lobbyists to find money to pay for class - size reductions and other programs with funding contingent
on new cigarette taxes.
My personal preferences would be for states to impose a
new consumption
tax on something that's bad for the world, like gambling or carbon emissions or sugar or
cigarettes, but states could also impose a special
tax on millionaires or rent out some state asset (like highways or parking lots).
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