Hiking Tobacco Tax will Result in Other Tax Hikes

Here’s a lesson for Wisconsin legislators to learn.

In November, voters said yes to a bill that put an additional one dollar tax on tobacco products. Tobacco sales dropped dramatically in the first three months of this year, and now some legislatures are saying I told you so.

The plan, add a dollar tax to tobacco products to get people to quit. That additional tax money would fund education, healthcare, and property taxes.

That money, is already built into the budget, but since that source of funding is already starting to dwindle some lawmakers say taxes will have to be raised elsewhere to make up for the loss.

Emphasis mine.  This isn’t even an “unintended consequence.”  It was planned! 

Idiots.