Remember when the New Hampshire legislature had a Republican Majority? Good times. Good times.
Well, they wanted to lower the tobacco tax by .10 cents a pack and New Hampshire Democrats snapped like a twig. It was irresponsible to lower that revenue. There may have even been some angry cursing and insults. In fact, I’m sure there was.
So, now that NH Attorney General Joe Foster has asked Wal-Mart, Rite-Aid, and Walgreens to stop selling tobacco altogether, when can we expect the State Democrat party, every elected Democrat, the media and other progressive water-carriers (Huff-Po, MoveOn, OFA, GraniteState Progress, New Hampshire Citizens Alliance, etc..) to start demanding the New Hampshire AG explain how we’ll ‘survive‘ without all that tobacco tax revenue?
This will impact tobacco tourism, not that Democrats ever cared about that.
But if the plan was to starve that revenue source all along, which I suggested was a justification for lowering the tax to wean us off it, then the lefty-wing-nut caterwauling was just more partisan political Democat gas-bagging–also known as lying, on the part of the professional left in the GraniteState. Which, by the way, it was. A fact that the absence of crying directed at AG Foster will just prove.
H/T Susan Olsen c/o Facebook
