The children be darned! Tobacco taxes.

[Edwina's Secretary]

I read today in the new issue of TIME Magazine that the first tax on cigarettes was in 1864.

I guess we'll have to blame it on Abraham Lincoln...

[blue]

No. We blame the House of Congress of 1864, the POTUS dosent write tax laws. Now if you can find Lincoln ran on a no new taxes campaign you might be onto something.

[blue]

Did TIME restrict their research to cigarette taxes? The first tax on tobacco was in 1794, it "was enacted, modified, suspended and repealed, with small, if any, effect upon federal revenues".

The next tax was in 1862 levied on cigars, and goes from there.

The tax increase now isnt restricted to cigarettes, its all tobacco products.

[Puckstop31]

No. We blame the House of Congress of 1864, the POTUS dosent write tax laws. Now if you can find Lincoln ran on a no new taxes campaign you might be onto something.

Nice work Dan. Magnificent use of the historical method.

<golf clap>

Not bad for somebody who did not take use of your public education.

I'd think a history text is a better reference than Time. But that's just me.