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If the Indy Chamber is going to propose such a huge cigarette tax increase, maybe they should propose using some of the money on programs that use proven methods to get people to stop smoking. Smoking rates in households making less than $35,000 are 3x higher than in households making $100,000+. As much as cigarettes are a nuisance and cause serious health problems, increasing the cigarette tax could easily turn into a tax on the poor to be redistributed to the middle class. This should be seen as less of a cash cow and more of a way to make our citizens healthier.
As far as the justice reform stuff that the Indy Chamber is endorsing, I agree wholeheartedly. To solve our crime issues, we need citizens to start trusting our institutions, and especially the ones who end up needing intervention from the criminal justice system. Throwing more police into a community that doesn’t trust government institutions is like putting a generic gas station BAND-AID on a wound that needs stitches. It doesn’t work. We need real change. I don’t even trust our institutions and I have most flavors of privilege, so there is a long way to go.
Hopefully sometime soon this state will reform mandatory minimums and drug laws. Lawmakers need to wake up to the fact that Indiana has as many prisoners as Australia with a fraction of the population. Not only is it unacceptable in the “land of the free,” but our economy would be MUCH better and our GDP would be MUCH higher if we took a play out of the book of most other developed countries and got non-violent offenders incorporated into the economy rather than indoctrinated into a life of crime at the state prison.
How much are Simon and Irsay kicking in?
They prefer to take, as do many developers.
So they want to take more money from one group of Hoosiers, smokers, and give it to another group of Hoosiers, people who teach pre-K in government funded schools. And as an extra added bonus, government gets bigger!! It’s a win-win for all the special interests. I thought the Indy Chamber was a business lobbying group…silly me.