North Carolina families
have hit the limit
when it comes to taxes.

During the worst financial crisis since The Great Depression, some politicians in Raleigh want to
raise taxes – on cigarettes, beer, wine and other spirits.

It’s just another tax on working families. North Carolina families have hit the limit when it comes to taxes. We have rising unemployment and money is tight.

Asking hard-working North Carolinians to dig deep into their pockets to pay more taxes is wrong.

Recently, Congress hiked the cigarette tax by 62¢ per pack and that will likely cost some North Carolina workers their jobs. Any additional state tobacco tax increases will threaten more North Carolina jobs. It will hurt tobacco growers who contract their sales to the tobacco companies. It will hurt farm workers and tobacco factory workers. It will hurt convenience stores and their workers.

The fact is higher taxes on tobacco will hurt our state’s economy and jeopardize nearly 50,000 jobs.

In these tough times, we should be doing more to protect jobs – not complicating problems that will move more working families to the unemployment lines.

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