Cigarettes, too, have been hit by state excise tax increases.

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Those people still pay payroll taxes, sales taxes, state income taxes, excise taxes and more.

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While the study excluded excise, state and local taxes, it showed that the average small business paid 19.8% in federal taxes.

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State and federal governments certainly knows how to extract revenue through excise taxes from businesses which policy makers feel benefit too handsomely from their products.

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Add it up: federal income taxes, Social Security taxes, Medicare taxes, myriad federal excise taxes (check out your phone bill), state income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, electricity taxes, water taxes, sewage taxes, airline taxes, hotel occupancy taxes (if you vacation or travel for business), road tolls, vehicle registration fees, driving license fees, marriage license fees and marriage penalties (Washington's version of family values is to tax people for getting married), dog license fees, etc.

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Consumers at the state and municipal levels over the past several years have either used the referendum process to abolish excise taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages and foods, or have successfully urged elected officials to refrain from adopting such taxes.

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