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Lawmakers continue push for higher cigarette tax

July 21, 2007 By WRN Contributor

State Representative Mark Pocan (D-Madison) hope the Governor's proposed $1.25 a pack increase in the cigarette tax will survive a budget conference committee.

Pocan says it's a politically easy tax to pass and even some Republicans have come forward to say they could vote for a "sin tax" on cigarettes, without breaking a "no tax increase" pledge.

It's estimated the tax would cost smokers more than $500 million over two years.

Pocan thinks the proposal, or something close to it, will be in the final budget. 

AUDIO: Andrew Beckett reports (MP3 :37)

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