Wanna get mad?
February 25th, 2009 by Steve Simpson
Look, we can have a true discussion and maybe even disagree about the state’s 44 cent per pack cigarette tax that was passed a couple of years ago. What is undeniable, though, is that the money was earmarked specifically toward helping out low income Hoosiers gain health insurance.
Um, not so much.
Our friend Matt Tully of the Indy Star lays out where some of that money has actually ended up. The governor has gotten away with the idea that this 44 cents a pack tax increase was NOT a tax increase, because it went to help low income Hoosiers gain health benefits. How would that argument have gone if he had to admit that his plan “would also help legislators reinstate THEIR health care perk” ?
I’m thinking not so well.
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