Economist Walter Williams, in a column in The Washington Examiner, cites a study by Mackinac Center analysts on the connection between cigarette taxes and smuggling.
Mike LaFaive, director of the Center’s Morey Fiscal Policy Initiative, and Todd Nesbit, Ph.D., an assistant professor at The College of Charleston and an adjunct scholar with the Center, co-authored “Cigarette Smuggling and Taxes 2010,” which was an update of their earlier work on the same issue.
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