Tobacco Terrorism

The New York Post is warning that another 9-11 could be coming unless we cut cigarette taxes. Writer Deroy Murdock says that Islamic terror groups are getting money by smuggling cigarettes from low-tax states like Virginia to high-tax ones like New York. Ergo, New York’s tobacco tax should be frozen or cut, says Murdock.

Here’s a better idea: raise Virginia’s tobacco tax in the name of fighting terrorism. That way, we can save American lives now, as well as those theoretical future terrorism victims that the Post is so worried will be cut down using the proceeds from low-tax cigarettes. Now, if we could only do something about heroin trafficking in Afghanistan and all that oil money from the mideast, those terror financiers will really be worried…