Way to prove once again your total ineptitude on cigarette taxes.
Indiana lawmakers are putting the finishing touches on a two-year budget and, as part of that ongoing negotiation, have stripped out a 50-cent-per-pack cigarette tax increase.
Two weeks ago as I was writing my annual dead mom column, recounting the six years since she died at age 57 of lung cancer due to a lifetime of smoking, I called the 50-cent increase a half-butt effort (only because I figured I wouldn t be allowed to use a three-letter word that more strongly epitomized my frustration and disdain for the yearly impotence out of our legislators).
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