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The mayor of Chicago, USA, Rahm Emanuel, wants to place a specific tax on cigarette packs, 75c per unit more than before. Though he sais he is doing it in the city's best interest: to have more city funds available for low-income children with vision problems, and other projects that require funding.

In Maryland people get excise tax credit when buying an electric vehicle. This has increased the quantity demanded.

This is a very old article (1993) that talks about how the taxes should be set on the packs of cigarettes. The goal is to pay for the same amount of the increase of medical attention demand in the article as it seems.

This article talks about how the PED of tobacco is not as inelastic as once previously thought. The price of tobacco is increasing due to the government adding taxes, and because of the large increases in prices, the demand for tobacco is decreasing.

Here is an example of elasticity, due to the tax increases.

This article tells how the mayor is trying to increase the minimum wage in San Diego. Some people think it could be bad for business and that it would eliminate jobs. The article also talks about taxes and how they should be imposed and where.

While Republicans have long lamented the problems inherent with increasing taxes to fund obamacare, they traditionally have been without any evidence. This article argues that obamacare will definitely negatively affect the labor market, due to the taxes people will face and the benefits others will receive.

This articles talks about Obama's annual speech, in his speech, Obama promised a number of things including: raising the minimum wage, creating a new tax-free savings bond to encourage Americans to save, to work for the closure of the Guantánamo Bay prison, just to name a few. The increased minimum wage will help a lot of people in America and will help increase the standard of living for them.

This an interesting article about the economic happenings from the Great Recession to the present day. It explains how the US economy progressed through and after the recession through the use of fiscal and monetary policies. However, these "policies" did not seem to efficiently help in the recovery of economic growth. Issuing higher taxes (for the so-called sake of increasing government revenue) on both the demand side and the supply side caused further damage to economic recovery and unemployment.