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- Ban Smoking In Public Places
ROBYN BLUMNER ask smokers to CEASE & DESIT LITTERING, in her column. I couldn't agree more when we participate in the Beach Cleanup, the thing we pick up most are nasty cigarette butts, followed by empty cigarette cartons. And don't even get me...
- Mississippi Can't Afford A Lower Tax On Groceries?
Could this be the reason? On Friday, Mississippi lawmakers approved a multimillion dollar incentive package to secure a deal that will bring the Toyota plant to northeast Mississippi. The state's incentive package includes $293.9 million for Toyota,...
- Report Urges Lower Food Taxes In Mississippi
Coast municipalities from Waveland to Pascagoula will gain in sales tax revenues if the Mississippi Legislature passes a cigarette tax increase/food tax reduction bill, according to a report released last month by the John C. Stennis Institute of Government...
- A Smoking Ban For Mississippi
Jackson City Councilman Leslie B. McLemore said he supports a statewide ban. "I think just for the health of all of our citizens whether they're in Jackson or Tishomingo," he said. I hope it passes, I am so tired of having to breath second hand smoke...
- Mississippi Universities
Universities in Mississippi get few $'s, then other educational entities and less money then they did in the past. Indeed, where state dollars funded half of university operating budgets in 1990, state dollars fund only 25 percent of those budgets...
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Sid Salter Questions Why Families Are Forced to Pay Higher Taxes on Necessities Then Cigarettes
Read the entire column in the Meridian Star. It ticks me off to be forced to subsidize a nasty habit that causes cancer and pollutes the air we all breath. I for one am sick and tired of breathing the second hand smoke of the 1-4 Mississippians that choose to smoke. I will support candidates who will ban smoking in public places and will raise the cigarette tax.Therefore, the priority of Mississippi government — Gov. Haley Barbour the lead dog and his lapdogs in the state Senate chief among them — is that we keep the 4-out-of-4 Mississippians who must purchase gasoline to get to work, school and church paying within 7 percent of the national average gasoline tax so that we can protect the apparent divine right of the 1-in-4 Mississippians who smoke to pay 72 percent less in tobacco taxes than other Americans. If there is any logic or fiscal responsibility in a state artificially keeping cigarette taxes almost 10 times lower than gasoline taxes, it’s lost on this writer. Gasoline is a necessity that must be purchased by virtually all Mississippi families and businesses. Cigarettes aren’t.
- Ban Smoking In Public Places
ROBYN BLUMNER ask smokers to CEASE & DESIT LITTERING, in her column. I couldn't agree more when we participate in the Beach Cleanup, the thing we pick up most are nasty cigarette butts, followed by empty cigarette cartons. And don't even get me...
- Mississippi Can't Afford A Lower Tax On Groceries?
Could this be the reason? On Friday, Mississippi lawmakers approved a multimillion dollar incentive package to secure a deal that will bring the Toyota plant to northeast Mississippi. The state's incentive package includes $293.9 million for Toyota,...
- Report Urges Lower Food Taxes In Mississippi
Coast municipalities from Waveland to Pascagoula will gain in sales tax revenues if the Mississippi Legislature passes a cigarette tax increase/food tax reduction bill, according to a report released last month by the John C. Stennis Institute of Government...
- A Smoking Ban For Mississippi
Jackson City Councilman Leslie B. McLemore said he supports a statewide ban. "I think just for the health of all of our citizens whether they're in Jackson or Tishomingo," he said. I hope it passes, I am so tired of having to breath second hand smoke...
- Mississippi Universities
Universities in Mississippi get few $'s, then other educational entities and less money then they did in the past. Indeed, where state dollars funded half of university operating budgets in 1990, state dollars fund only 25 percent of those budgets...