We warned the DFL. \u00a0“Go ahead – raise cigarette taxes – the most regressive tax there is. \u00a0Watch what happens. \u00a0People will go out of their way to avoid paying the tax. \u00a0Just you watch!”<\/p>\n
And the DFLers – and their camp followers in the local Sorosphere – assured the,selves “Naw! \u00a0 People won’t drive miles out of their way for…cigarettes. \u00a0No way. It people aren’t that manic about not paying for A Better Minnesota”<\/p>\n
But at a price break of almost two bucks a pack? <A href=”http:\/\/kfgo.com\/news\/articles\/2013\/aug\/19\/cigarette-buyers-flee-minnesota-to-avoid-tax-hike\/”>Of course they are<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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We warned the DFL. \u00a0“Go ahead – raise cigarette taxes – the most regressive tax there is. \u00a0Watch what happens. \u00a0People will go out of their way to avoid paying the tax. \u00a0Just you watch!” And the DFLers – and their camp followers in the local Sorosphere – assured the,selves “Naw! \u00a0 People won’t drive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37972"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37984,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37972\/revisions\/37984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}