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Yet this very correctness seems emblematic of the whole affair: dutiful, disciplined, devoid of finesse - an industrious exercise in well-meaning mediocrity
In an appeal to the rights of the taxpayers, a member of the team that filed the suit aptly noted, the State of Mississippi has never smoked a cigarette. Similar suits soon followed from Minnesota, West Virginia, Florida, and Massachusetts, and in 1997 tobacco executives agreed to a proposed global settlement, which would reimburse states to the tune of $365 billion
The absence of an income tax, or low overall tax revenue collections, are often used as shorthand for classifying a state as low tax. These two measures are, in fact, reliable indicators that taxes will be low for the highest-income earners, but they tell us next to nothing about the tax level being charged to low-income families
In 1996, an internal document from British American Tobacco warned that, because of the spread of extremist views from fundamentalists in countries such as Afghanistan, the industry would have to prepare to fight a hurricane
