Reply #42: When NJ raised cig taxes, their total revenue fell

[JPZenger]

I all in favor of cigarette taxes, but it is absurd to raise them too much. It is too easy to cross borders or buy them in other ways. A couple years ago when NJ did a big increase in their cig taxes, they became much higher than PA and Del. At that point, the total revenue that NJ received from cig taxes actually went down.