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The South Carolina House passed a budget early Thursday morning that includes a cigarette tax increase and a possible loan for a golf tournament.
Jump to full article: WSPA News Channel Seven (Spartanburg, SC), 2010-03-18
Author: Robert Kittle
Intro: The South Carolina House pulled an all-nighter to finish its version of the state budget, meeting from 9:30 Wednesday morning until 7:30 Thursday morning. The House plan includes a 30-cents-per-pack cigarette tax increase, with the money being put aside in a special fund for health care needs starting July 1, 2011.
The increase would bring in an estimated $88 million. South Carolina has the lowest cigarette tax in the nation at 7 cents. . . .
Sen. Harvey Peeler, R-Gaffney, said, "I'm one of those that's not crazy about a tax increase at all. But when I talk to my constituents they say, 'If you must raise a tax, that's the only one we would agree with, is a cigarette tax.'"
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