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Obama’s Twisted
Scheme to Hook Pre-Schoolers on Tobacco
 Rick
Geraci, commandant of the New Mexico Military Institute, recently put forward a
bizarre argument for backing an Obama administration plan to raise the federal
tax on cigarettes to fund a new universal pre-school initiative: national
security.
I
kid you not.
So
our nation’s defense and the futures of pre-schoolers everywhere depend on
keeping Americans hooked on tobacco products?
Why didn’t someone think of this before?
Geraci
told the Alamogordo Daily newspaper that many kids today are rejected by the
military because they are so poorly educated.
As such, he backs the Obama plan to expand pre-K programs by almost
doubling the tax on tobacco products – as if that will somehow magically fix
the wretched failure of so many of our government schools.
Believe
it or not, the scheme is actually worse than it seems - and bet your bippy it
will come before Nevada legislators in the 2015 session. If they had any sense, they’d reject it out
of hand.
If
they had any sense.
So
I guess we better start the opposition rolling now.
As
outlined in President Obama’s State of the Union address last year, the federal
pre-K expansion program is expected to cost in the neighborhood of $75 billion…which
means it’s more likely to come in well over $100 billion.
To
pay for it, the federal excise tax on cigarettes would be hiked to around $1.95
a pack. And that - as Nevadans should
know all too well from our experience with tobacco money and the Guinn Millennium
Scholarships - will result in smokers quitting or buying on the black market.
Either
way, the amount of money the feds predict will be raised from this proposed tax
hike won’t be stable or sustainable. Which
brings us to the worst part of the scheme…
In
the beginning Uncle Sam will cough up 90 percent of the funding – the same
sales pitch used to fool Gov. Brian Sandoval into expanding Medicaid. But by the end of the ten-year period of the
proposal, Nevadans will be paying $3 for every $1 it gets from DC.
And
guess what? Once a highly popular
program such as pre-school education gains root, it’s not going anywhere.
Which
means once the tobacco money from the feds dries up, all of Nevada’s taxpayers
are going to end up footing the bill, not just Nevada’s smokers – as with the Guinn
Millennium Scholarships, which weren’t supposed to ever cost taxpayers a dime
but which sucked $5 million out of the current budget.
Look,
if pre-K education is so critical to national security, then everyone should
pitch in to pay for it, not just smokers.
And if Obama wants it, he shouldn’t leave Nevadans holding the bag. We have enough big government as it is.
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