Add It Up: Taxing sin
January 11, 2009 at 12:00 pm by Thomas Wheatley in Add it up
Yellow nails? She must be a smoker!
Amount Georgia lawmakers want to raise the price of cigarettes to offset a $2.4 billion deficit: $1
Georgia’s current tax on cigarettes: 39 cents
Nation’s average cigarette tax: $1.19
Estimated revenue the proposed cigarette tax would generate for the state: $350 million
Estimated tax revenue that would be raised if Sunday alcohol sales were allowed: $4.8 million
Number of signatures on an online petition calling for alcohol to be sold in stores on the Sabbath: 52,070
Dollar amount of a proposed “pole tax” that state lawmakers want strip club patrons to pay at the door: $5
Price of admission after 10 p.m. on a regular night at the Cheetah: $10
Minimum estimated revenue that could be generated if casinos were built in Atlanta and along the Georgia coast: $600 million
Sources: AJC, Associated Press, Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, PetitionOnline.com, TheCheetah.com, 11Alive.com
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