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UPDATE:Cigarette tax talks revived in Miss. Legislature
by The Associated Press
2 years ago | 459 views | 2 2 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend | print
JACKSON - Mississippi lawmakers have voted to revive a bill that would increase the state's cigarette tax.

The bill died last week when negotiators couldn't agree on a compromise before a deadline.

The Senate and House voted Monday to suspend the deadline and allow more talks. Doing so took more than a two-thirds majority in each chamber.

Mississippi's current cigarette excise tax of 18 cents a pack is the third-lowest in the nation.

When talks broke off last week, the House had offered to set it at 80 cents a pack and the Senate had offered 60 cents.

Lawmakers say increasing the tax could generate more revenue to pay for state government.
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mryhenry125
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June 17, 2009
if i could afford it, i would pack up and move to another state, this state has gone to the dogs, all we have here is poverty, no jobs, no unemployment, no insurance and it looks like the future is getting worse by the day, is that what they want everybody just to leave, you can not sell your property, nobody will buy it so what are we suppose to do stay here and starve while they argue.
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rehabku
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March 30, 2009
This state is going to regret this if a raise goes through. I don't know how these lawmakers can be so dense. The federal tax is a NEW ALL TIME HIGH tax increase and they are trying to get blood out of a turnip.

I wish they would just tell the truth about this tax and stop trying to take a "high road".

MS wants MONEY, MONEY, MONEY. Stop referring to health benefits of quitting. If everyone quit how would they get the money the tax increase is supposed to generate. So make up your mind is it about getting grown adults to quit, to deter "kids" from smoking, or to reduce health costs, or is it to generate more money for the state to throw into a bottomless hole. Not to mention it will just drive the smokers out of state to purchase their goods. Readers should check out the editoral about the legislature failing. It is purely fluff. No wonder this state stay at the bottom of all rankings, on education and the top of most unemployment and teenage pregnancy.
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