Joseph Coletti, John Locke Foundation director of health and fiscal policy studies, explains that some lawmakers are pursuing misguided proposals to boost the state tax on “little cigars.” Coletti offered these comments during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 373).
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