Businesses Say State Should Go Slow on Hiking Cigarette Tax and Cutting Wine Discounts

By Josh Rogers on Tuesday, May 6, 2008.

To close a growing budget hole, Governor Lynch wants to add 25 cents a pack to the tobacco tax, and cut in half the discount retailers get when they by wine from the state.

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