INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A coalition of health and business groups is renewing its push for Indiana lawmakers to increase the state’s cigarette tax by $2 per pack.
The Raise It for Health Coalition held a rally last week at the Statehouse and 14 other events around the state to launch its latest campaign for the tax hike.
Indiana has one of the nation’s highest smoking rates, with 1 million Hoosiers smoking every day, but its 99.5 cents a pack cigarette tax is the nation’s 14th-lowest.
The coalition argues that raising that tax is the simplest and most effective way to reduce smoking rates and improve Indiana’s health.
The group says that a $2-per-pack increase would raise more than $350 million to invest in Indiana’s workforce, improve its business climate and reduce tobacco use.
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A coalition of health and business groups (anti-American liberals with an agenda) are on the move again. “The group says that a $2-per-pack increase on cigarettes would raise more than $350 million to invest in Indiana’s workforce, improve its business climate”…HOW THW F IS THIS EVEN A THOUGHT? Have any of these people ever heard of the American Revolution? They need to read up and figure out they are seriously attempting to cause the second one. To just target a group for ridiculous taxation because you don’t like what they are doing or just because you think you can get away with it is anti-American. People need to pay attention to these liberal whack jobs because they are willingly and intentionally ruining America.
These groups need to go get a life…