Do The Right Thing - Observations from Mark Block

Hey Big Brother - What’s next?

The Wisconsin Department of Revenue recently sent over 1,000 letters to people that buy cigarettes on the Internet and told them to cough up the tax owed.

I predicted last year that raising the tax on a pack of cigarettes would decrease the total amount of taxes the state collected due to people buying on the Internet and the dramatic increase in smuggled products to escape paying the absurb tax that hits the poorest of people.

(side bar: I have a very biased opinion cause I smoke)

I hope to write in the next couple months how much tax revenues went down because of the tax increase. Perhaps our legislature will actually repeal the tax increase - right

What group is next to get letters from the State Department of Revenue??? Do you buy anything over the Internet??

p.s. If you don’t think that smuggling is taking place - here is a good article from the Wall Street Journal.

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