Massachusetts Raises Cigarette Tax $1.00 a Pack

As you can read here Massachusetts’ Governor Deval Patrick has signed a bill that will increase the tax on cigarettes by $1.00 a pack to a total of $2.51 a pack. Once again a tax is being imposed on a group of politically incorrect people to help to pay for the government’s penchant for overspending.

The mostly absent, vying for a cabinet position in a Barack Obama presidency governor of Massachusetts had no problem getting into town to pass more taxes onto the people who were foolish enough to vote for him.

The part about the cigarette tax that irks me the most (and I am a non-smoker) isn’t just that this tax unfairly targets a small percentage of the people, it isn’t even the fact that this tax is imposed on this group of people while all the other lesser taxed people benefit from it, it is the fact that this tax hurts the poor much more than anybody else.

Let’s face it, the less fortunate are hit harder by this tax than anyone else, plus they are addicted so it makes them easy targets. The government knows that they can keep on raising the tobacco tax because the people that use the product can’t stop using the product. The fact that Democrats claim that they care about the poor and less fortunate while evil Republicans only care about themselves is what really ticks me off about this.

This tax increase went into effect , and in some cases before the bill was even signed (more on that in my next post), because the Massachusetts government was so eager to increase revenues before the start of the new fiscal year.

The Massachusetts government doesn’t care about the residents, it only cares about how much of the resident’s money can it steal. And they are doing a great job at stealing money.

If this were the 1700’s the tobacco would find it’s way to the bottom of the fucking harbor.