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The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste - Action Alert

Dear AL

The big-government, nanny-state politicians
are at it again. In the name of "safeguarding
Americans' health," some in Congress are proposing an
increase of as much as 156 percent in the federal cigarette excise
tax.

The truth is the big-government politicians
are looking for ways to bring in more tax revenue to finance their
wasteful spending programs, and they think they can "sell"
this targeted tax increase to most Americans who won't even
notice it.

But if we don't draw a line in the sand
here, it will literally be death by a thousand cuts!

First, they target smokers; next it will
be people who eat snack foods; then those who dine at fast food
restaurants; those who watch satellite television, and on and
on. Before you know it, every single American will be hit by
these narrowly targeted taxes. And the big spenders will have a
whole new stream of our tax dollars to spend on their pet
programs!

We must put our foot down right now and put
it down hard. I urge you, before you do anything else today,
tell your U.S. Representative to oppose any increase in the federal
cigarette excise tax

http://www.cagw.org/site/R?i=kQ_6YLzygf5WIPaJxbar3w..

.

The big spenders in Congress know that a
broad-based income tax hike would be wildly unpopular and cause a
widespread public backlash that could jeopardize their hold on
office. But they think they can get away with targeting punitive
tax increases at specific groups of Americans - smokers, satellite
television viewers, "the wealthy."

If we let them sneak this cigarette excise
tax hike by, it will only embolden them to propose more and more of
these narrowly targeted tax increases until we are all taxed to
death!

Please don't let them get away with
it. Tell your U.S. Representative today to oppose this tax
increase and the wasteful big-government spending it would finance!

http://www.cagw.org/site/R?i=Ua3cRWpjFV-JhOhGTr5ivw..



Sincerely,

Thomas A. Schatz
President

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The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) is the
lobbying arm of Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), the nation's
largest taxpayer watchdog organization with more than one million
members and supporters nationwide. CCAGW is a nonpartisan,
nonprofit organization that lobbies for legislation to eliminate
waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government. For more
information about CCAGW, visit www.ccagw.org

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