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RUSH: Let\u2019s talk about this cigar tax, this cigarette tax. The president says he going to veto it. He ‘reiterated today his threat to veto Senate legislation that would substantially increase funds for children\u2019s health insurance by levying a 61-cent-a-pack increase in the federal excise tax on cigarettes.\u2019 This includes that whopping 20,000% increase on the tax on cigars. The tax on cigars right now is five cents. It will go to ten bucks on large cigars. By the way, for those of you who are not cigar aficionados as am I, a large cigar is defined as anything that is not a cigar that will fit in a pack of 20, like cigarettes do. And those aren\u2019t cigars. They might be called cigarillos, but if they\u2019re made by a machine, you may as well give \u2019em to the homeless. So the point is, every cigar is a large cigar, ten bucks. The president is threatening to veto it. <\/p>\n

Now, here\u2019s my problem with this. This is liberalism on the march. This is not a health issue, just like global warming is not a science issue. This is liberalism. This is a tax issue. This is what liberals do. They raise taxes, and they get people to go along with it by targeting a segment of society that is defenseless and helpless, the itty-bitty children. They target the evil in society who are behaving in ways that liberals highly disapprove, i.e., smokers. They\u2019ve about wrung the cigarette tax thing dry, although that tax is going to be exorbitantly high now. But now they focus on a forgotten area of the tobacco industry, the premium cigar industry. I\u2019m going to tell you people, there is no comparison to a cigar and a cigarette. The cigar is pure tobacco. There are no additives in it. There are no chemicals in it. Only idiots inhale \u2019em, and not many do for very long. They are a relaxation experience, and it\u2019s a whole different mind-set if you\u2019re cigar aficionado than if you\u2019re a cigarette smoker. If you want to smoke cigarettes, I\u2019m not condemning anything, I\u2019m just pointing out the difference here. <\/p>\n

The percentage of the tobacco business that is devoted to cigars is less than 2%, all the cigarettes worldwide and so forth. This tax will put them out of business. But I\u2019m getting off the main point. I am deviating from my main thrust. The main thrust is this is not a health issue. They\u2019re using again the little bitty children. Why in the world should one segment of our society be targeted for a tax increase to pay for health care benefits that the parents of these kids ought to be finding a way to afford themselves? If that can\u2019t be done, then spread the burden of paying for it, but we\u2019ve already got how many damn children\u2019s health programs do we have? I know that taxes on cigarettes already are going to a lot of this. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve said for years, the cigarette smokers of this country deserve our thanks. They deserve congressional medals of honor because they continue to buy these things and their taxes are funding children\u2019s health programs already. What I think ought to happen here, I think the products that these itty-bitty children use ought to be taxed. They\u2019re the ones, they ought to be forced, their parents, to pay for their kids\u2019 health care. <\/p>\n

Why should cigar smokers have to do it? What do kids eat? They eat vanilla Ice cream, they eat Doritos, they eat Coke and Pepsi and 7-Up and whatever, Red Bull spiked with who knows what. I don\u2019t know what they do, but make the parents of these kids, every time they\u2019re buying a Snickers, raise the tax on a candy bar five up bucks. Diaper tax, absolutely. And if you get throw-away diapers to save the environment, tax those at ten bucks a diaper. Cartoon taxes, that\u2019s right. If you watch Cartoon Network, special tax collected on your cable bill. If the itty-bitty children are going to be the beneficiaries of this, why in the hell is somebody that has nothing to do with the itty-bitty children paying for it? How come big government\u2019s going to come around — and I know they think this is going to succeed because they have created such hatred for cigarette smokers in this country. They have successfully over the years created such hatred, secondhand smoke kills. It doesn\u2019t. Firsthand smoke doesn\u2019t universally kill. I see these numbers, 400,000 cigarette related deaths a year. They don\u2019 t know that. Prove it. But the number\u2019s out there, just like three million homeless were out there. <\/p>\n

Dawn, it looks like you\u2019re really getting irritated in there. Is it because I am not sympathetic to the plight of our poor, obese, itty-bitty children who don\u2019t have health care? This is not about the kids. It\u2019s just a technique to sell this. And of course, name for me the pro-smoker lobby. The cigar association, there\u2019s a trade group. I\u2019ve spoken to them. Great bunch of guys. Everybody I\u2019ve met in the cigar industry is a fine person, and they\u2019re being targeted here. They haven\u2019t done a thing. Kids don\u2019t smoke their product! Anyway, it just burns me up. The president is going to veto it; reiterated his promise to do that. <\/p>\n

&bull; Special Page:<\/strong> Rush\u2019s Cigar Recommendations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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