Taxes on cigarettes and liquor hit poor people harder than the rich, but the 'voluntary tax' of state lotteries hits them hardest of all. Because the poor tend to consume more of these items per capita than do those who are better off, poorer people bear a disproportionate share of that tax burden. He'd finance it by boosting the federal excise tax on cigarettes. One frequent way the poor get hit is additional "sin taxes" taxes placed on gambling, tobacco, and alcoholic beverages. State...

The group estimates that the world's top 10 pharmaceutical companies, and the world's top five tobacco companies lose a minimum of $1,000,000+ per day to global counterfeiters. Americas Watchdog has created its Global Piracy & Counterfeiting Consultants service to assist corporations in identifying & shutting down product counterfeiting operations, through integrated buy operations designed to prove who is making the counterfeit products, along with identifying their retail/wholesale...

Currently his shop and Bob's are the only ones around that carry the many unique blends of pipe tobacco and premium cigars that the smokers in this area are looking for. ROME - Brian Odrzykoski has been in the tobacco business since, as he calls it, "the hype of premium cigars" back in '96. As we spoke, a regular customer came in to purchase some "Black Cavendish" tobacco from one of the glass jars filled with the many exotic and varied blends that he carries. Joe Christofaro, an avid pipe...

And actually, the senate leader did not shake hands with her in front of the lawmakers as she would have preferred; she had to follow him into a antechamber. But passing a new comprehensive business tax doesn't mean that Michigan government is out of the woods. The state is still headed for what economists are calling a fiscal "train wreck unless the politicians do something to fix the yawning, $1. Republicans initially insisted that any new tax had to give business a massive tax cut. What...

Tobacco still rules economy---Kutsaira BY JACOB NANKHONYA 11:26:32 - 06 July 2007 TOBACCO is and would continue to dominate the economy in the short and medium term despite global anti smoking campaign, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Binton Kutsaira has said. Tobacco still rules economy---Kutsaira BY JACOB NANKHONYA 11:26:32 - 06 July 2007 TOBACCO is and would continue to dominate the economy in the short and medium term despite global anti smoking campaign, Deputy Minister of Agriculture...