Re:Get the Target Off of My Back (Score 1)

I have no problem with the gas tax because it only taxes people who drive. The only significant emissions from modern cars are Water Vapor and Carbon Dioxide. Everything else is trace amounts, and the last emissions inspection my car went through showed undetectable levels of the major toxins they test for. I've said it before and I'll say it again, and probably a million times more. If you do the calculations (I am not going to go through them again here just for the sake of time), you'll find that 6 billion people breathing emit more CO2 in ONE YEAR than has the combustion of fossil fuels, since 1900, in total. I just propose a gas tax to even things out a bit. If you want to make things fair, tax people who drive (as most of us do). It matters not to me if your H2 becomes a boat anchor.

I have no problem with reasonable taxes, but pushing cigarettes up to more than $5.00 a pack is ridiculous. And to do it because you've been spending irresponsibly makes it even worse. States can't be surprised that people are buying their cigarettes elsewhere.

Personally, I'll be leaving Michigan for good some time in the next 18 months and cigarette taxes play a large roll in my decision. So now they won't have my income tax, my property tax or a body to fill a skilled position (doesn't matter, the job will be off-shored soone enough).