{"id":13133,"date":"2015-04-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/taxing-smokers-no-sign-of-support-for-education\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:57:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:57:52","slug":"taxing-smokers-no-sign-of-support-for-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/taxing-smokers-no-sign-of-support-for-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxing Smokers No Sign of Support for Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

After 32 years of IRS work \u2014 and more than $100 million in resolved tax debt \u2014 I've seen just about every version of the problem you're dealing with. I'm Darrin Mish, a tax attorney in Tampa. Here's what you should know.<\/p>\n

www.columbiatribune.com \u2013 When Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster pitched a tax increase on cigarettes, he said, \u201cSurely each of us values higher education for our young people more than we value cheap cigarettes.\u201d Speaking for ourselves, we certainly value the benefits that a college education brings more than we value cigarettes. Of course, neither of us is a smoker. It is pretty easy to value something that you, your friends and your family might benefit from, especially when it will be funded by other people. But does taxing smokers really demonstrate that we value education, or does it show that we support a growing nanny state? We think the latter.<\/p>\n

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After 32 years of IRS work \u2014 and more than $100 million in resolved tax debt \u2014 I've seen just about every version of the problem you're dealing with. I'm Darrin Mish, a tax attorney in Tampa. Here's what you should know. www.columbiatribune.com \u2013 When Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster pitched a tax increase on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22453,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13133\/revisions\/22453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}