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Californias thirst for money from tobacco continues unabated. Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez and Senate President Pro Tem Don Peralta announced Tuesday their plan to introduce a bill to buy health insurance for all Californians, funded in significant part by a new tax of $2 per pack of cigarettes that is projected to yield a stable amount of $2 billion per year.
Californias current per-pack tax is 87 cents and the states voters narrowly defeated, 52-48%, last Novembers Proposition 86, which would have increased the per-pack tax by $2.60.
Public information about the plan, which has drawn preliminary support from California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, mentions funding from A $2 per pack increase in the tobacco tax along with employer contributions and a four percent tax on hospital revenues.
That language, clearly aimed at cigarettes, makes it unclear whether cigars, pipe tobacco and other tobacco products would also be included in the tax scheme, and, as yet, the legislative bill or ballot proposition language has not been made public.
Californias current per-pack tax is 87 cents and the states voters narrowly defeated, 52-48%, last Novembers Proposition 86, which would have increased the per-pack tax by $2.60.
Public information about the plan, which has drawn preliminary support from California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, mentions funding from A $2 per pack increase in the tobacco tax along with employer contributions and a four percent tax on hospital revenues.
That language, clearly aimed at cigarettes, makes it unclear whether cigars, pipe tobacco and other tobacco products would also be included in the tax scheme, and, as yet, the legislative bill or ballot proposition language has not been made public.
