From LA Daily News:
Two weeks after the California primary, a closely-watched effort to impose a new tax on tobacco in the nation’s most populous state remains too close to call.
The secretary of state reports that with 400,000 ballots outstanding, the measure that would add a $1-a-pack cigarette tax is trailing by 17,500 votes.
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Prop. 29: California tobacco tax measure trails by razor-thin margin: From LA Daily News: Two weeks after … http://t.co/CH2NxbMN #tcot
I’ve got my fingers crossed it loses by any margin. It’s wrong to tax a minority to fund whatever the folks in Sacramento please. Don’t trust them with any additional funds.
I hope it doesn’t pass either. I am not a smoker, but there is something sketchy about this tax.
I also hope Brown’s other taxes don’t get passed in November! We are taxed to death already!!!
And so it goes…
An election ballot proposal backed by millions of dollars and yet it is still to close to call. Check the Registrar’s bank accounts before and after the elections just in case the ‘system goes down’ and the votes are counted by hand.