Texas Snus Tax Update

If you were a doctor, would you live in BF Texas for four years in exchange for $160,000?

As it turns out, probably not.

According to the Lubbock Journal, the $1.32 minimum tax on smokeless tobacco that went in to effect last year isn’t getting doctors to live in shitty places. Why? Living in a shitty place sucks, and $160,000 or $1.32 per tin doesn’t change that when you’re a doctor. Who’s the doctor going to drink beer with? Who’s he going to date? Is he going to send his kid to that one room school?

No. If he’s going to live in this state, chances are he’ll live outside Dallas or inside Houston — not that these places lack shitty qualities — and drive his BMW to Whole Foods on paved roads.

Poor rural Texas. No doctors for you.

Lucky legislators. I’m sure they’ll find something to do with the cash…