Did You See this coming

Increase in Cigarette tax ,
Who profits from it?
Who makes money?
What will Gov. Lawton do when in office?
Makes sence to me!

From CP @ RDW Link

The Guvs gift to the tribes...
In a stunning lack of common sense today. Jim Doyle is
announcing that the proposed $1 a pack increase in cigarette
taxes is not enough for him and he is endorsing a $1.25 a pack
increase moving Wisconsin's tax per pack of cigarettes to $2.02.
(God forbid we not be among the five highest taxed anything)
They are trying to use tax policy again to legislate behavior,
same old liberal social engineering.I ask you who are the
benefactors of this tax increase?Any businesses in neighboring
states that sell cigarettes will see an increase in business as
people cross borders to feed their habits.But in addition,
the Indian tribes who have smoke shops in their casinos will
see a huge influx of people going there to avoid the state tax
the casinos are exempt from. Of course the casinos do not pass
all the savings along, they mark their smokes up to a point
where their profit is much higher than retailers who have to
pay the taxes, but their prices are marginally lower.This will
be of huge benefit to the casinos that just dropped how many
hundreds of thousands into the Governors re-election campaign?
One thing is certain they will have to hire extra people to count
all the windfall profits coming their was as a result of horrid tax
policy.Furthermore, when Jim Doyle was telling us how hard he
worked to balance the budget, you remember the one they found
the almost $2 billion hole in after Doyle won, why didn't he tell us
about all the tax increases and fee increases he was in favor of?
Hmmm?This is only the beginning people. Hold onto your wallets,
pick up those phones and call your legislators, fire up those
keyboards and send those emails tell them Wisconsin taxes are
high enough.Tell the Governor to stop rewarding those who put
him in office and start fighting for the people and lowering our
ridiculous tax burden.As if that is not bad enough Doyle is also
planning to ban smoking in every workplace in the state including
every restaurant and every tavern.This is just plain wrong. Look
if you own a business and you want to allow smoking in it, that is
your concern, not the governors. Let the market work.There are
places that allow smoking and ones that don't, there is a market
for each.Tell me how many people die by drunk driver every year?
I don't see the Guv banning alcohol for everyone's greater good,
or increasing taxes on alcoholic beverages by 162%.

What a payoff Diamond Jim!