BUSH WILL VETO INCREASED CIGARETTE TAX

Senate Wants Tax Increase on Cigarettes to Expand Children’s Health Program: A Senate panel approved the State Children’s Health Insurance Program reauthorization bill (S.1364) that would add an additional $35 billion to the program over five years.

It would be funded by a 61-cent-a-pack increase in the federal tax on cigarettes.

"Tax increases are neither necessary nor advisable to appropriately fund the State Children's Health Insurance Program" - White House Spokesman Tony Fratto

President Bush says he will veto the measure.

Consequently, the huge majority of non-smoking taxpayers continue to subsidize health problems caused by the tiny minority of self-destructive cigarette smokers.

The Bush policies of "spend and never have to pay for it", continue to defy logic and common sense and will burden the next administration with virtually impossible remedies for everything from Iraq to health coverage to immigration to trade deficits and finally, the next administration will have to raise taxes for all the deficit spending done in the past 6-1/2 years.

THIS is only a part the "Bush Legacy."