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Originally Posted by alicat
Michigan has got one of the most outrageous tabacco taxes in the country. We (as smokers) watched year after year the taxes jump .50 cents at a time on a pack (due in no small part to our senator Granholm).
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Granholm is the governor, btw. Yes, she has spearheaded many of the cig taxes from the past couple years, but I'd put a lot of the blame on the mess Engler left as the budget. The money had to come from somewhere, and as you seem to know already, smokers are an easy segment of the population to pick on with extra taxes.
That said, I don't see how it's fair to only charge tax on cigarettes bought online when everything else is tax free. the people that mention buying from a reservation are on to something... I hear commercials for a local reservation here in WNY on the radio all the time. Cheap cigs and cheap gas to be had because they don't have to charge sales tax. I'd bet you could find one somewhere close by in Michigan, or at least one that will sell by mail/internet.