More tax from Pa Gov

[skeeter@ccia.com]

Ok for those that voted to re-elect our Pa Governor Randell for a second term, I sure hope you are happy. It was only a matter of days before he added a fuel tax at the pumps just as we got the price per gallon below the $3. mark. (we already had a highway tax at the pumps added) Then the vehicle registration thing. Make it double what it is now? Now he wants to make the Pa sales tax 7% instead of the 6% it has been. Some counties will jump to 8% because of this move. Allegheny for one.
What bothers me is the $.10 per pack tax he wants on a pack of cigarettes or the added tax on other tobacco products. My question is how can he just pick out a consumer product and place an added tax on that item? What if he said I want a dollar tax put on tea or a can of coffee? Is this fair? Can he just pick an item and tax it alone? Since they are so down on the tobacco industry these days ( because they already killed the steel industry/ trucking and airline industry, and give a rats butt about the transportation industry in Pittsburgh but fund a new arena for ball jockeys and worry about gambling casinos, why then can they keep collecting money from taxes on a product they deem illegal/ unhealthy? This all seems unfair to me and where is it going to stop? I sure don't want to see a dollar tax put on my coffee cup just because he don't like to drink the stuff. Wait, is that in the makings already?......it has to be an illegal move here. Where are our lawyers?