# Why pass our overdue budget when we can just jack up the taxes on tobacco?

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**Created:** [June 21, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/why-pass-our-overdue-budget-when-we-can-just-jack-up-the-taxes-on-tobacco/252839 "2010-06-21T20:07:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 7:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/why-pass-our-overdue-budget-when-we-can-just-jack-up-the-taxes-on-tobacco/252839/29 "2010-06-22T07:37:59Z")

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> [@Loose change 9/11](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/loose-change-9-11/32860/34):
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> if we worked on the budget as much as we work on the budget extenders we would have a fucking budget by now.

No good news is going to come out of this budget, and with Paterson not running again the leaders are happy to let him be the bad guy and say, “Well if we didn’t vote for it government would have shut down.” Meanwhile they’re all too happy to include this tax rather than cutting services elsewhere. Smoke and mirrors, my friend.

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