Comment by Adams, Grace C.

Document ID: TTB-2009-0002-0007
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Alcohol And Tobacco Tax And Trade Bureau
Received Date: August 18 2009, at 03:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: August 18 2009, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: June 22 2009, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: October 20 2009, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 80a0ba74
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This is comment on Proposed Rule

Notice No. 95: Implementation of Statutory Amendments Requiring the Qualification of Manufacturers and Importers of Processed Tobacco and Other Amendments Related to Permit Requirements, and the Expanded Definition of Roll-Your-Own Tobacco (Notice No. 95)

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Increase the tax on all tobacco products and use at least part of the tax to help pay for subsidies for the poor for buying the newly required health insurance. Tobacco users should have to pay at least part of the expected cost of their nasty habit. Since they will have to buy health insurance, unless they are too rich to qualify for the health insurance subsidy they will be getting at least some return from their tobacco tax in the form of the low income subsidy for health insurance.

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