{"id":21926,"date":"2020-07-02T10:02:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T14:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=21926"},"modified":"2020-07-02T10:02:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T14:02:51","slug":"vaping-news-tax-vapers-to-make-up-for-pandemic-budget-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/21926","title":{"rendered":"VAPING NEWS: TAX VAPERS TO MAKE UP FOR PANDEMIC BUDGET SHORTAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"dnbrq-0-0\">&#8220;Gas tax revenue plummeted this spring, income taxes won&#8217;t rebound anytime soon and some states are offering a property tax holiday because people can&#8217;t pay during the pandemic. But so-called sin taxes are rolling in as liquor stores boom, marijuana sales continue, vapers vape and smokers smoke. While not a huge portion of state tax revenue, sin taxes are a relative bright spot in a dark revenue picture. And some states are considering increasing those levies to make up some of the lost pandemic revenue. &#8220;It&#8217;s just easier politically to increase taxes on 12% of the population than on 80% of the population,&#8221; said Ulrik Boesen, senior policy analyst at the Tax Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes lower, broader-based taxes.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>BILL TARLING &#8212;<\/strong> <em> It&#8217;s disgusting that States not only want to demonize and restrict or ban vapers for using a product which helped move them away from smoking, but also want to have them make up for the Budget Revenue Shortage that the States\u00a0mismanaged.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE LINK:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/marijuana\/sns-sin-taxes-pandemic-may-help-budget-20200629-rr2hztebpvhb3omdc4vhofykdm-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Sin taxes\u2019 could help states in pandemic budget slump \u2014 at least a little bit<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"VAPING%20NEWS%3A%20TAX%20VAPERS%20TO%20MAKE%20UP%20FOR%20PANDEMIC%20BUDGET%20SHORTAGE\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Gas tax revenue plummeted this spring, income taxes won&#8217;t rebound anytime soon and some states are offering a property tax holiday because people can&#8217;t pay&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaping-news","wpcat-147-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21928,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21926\/revisions\/21928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}