from the Politico
COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATISM AT WORK IN OREGON: TOBACO'S CONCERN FOR THE POOR: LAUGHABLE?
Big Tobacco argues against tax rise
Revenue - Cigarette taxes unfairly fall on lower-income people, executives testify
Saturday, February 10, 2007
BETSY HAMMOND
After a parade of witnesses testified mainly in favor of increasing Oregon's cigarette tax, representatives of Big Tobacco and small mom and pop convenience stores got their say Friday.
Speaking to the House Revenue Committee, they said there are two big problems with raising Oregon's tax to $2.02 a pack to pay for children's health insurance:
Cigarette taxes fall heavily on the poor, because low-income Oregonians are a lot more likely to smoke than upper-income ones. Proposing a tax increase of roughly $300 per person on low-income people would never be broached by Oregon lawmakers -- except when those low-income people are smokers, who have little political clout, testified Mark Nelson, lobbyist for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co." The Oregonian
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