HB91

HB91

__Sponsors__: JBusath; Wyoming, and PJina; New York

__Issue Category__: Social Programs

__Title__: Poverty in the US

__Purpose__: Our bill is trying to accomplish the goal of letting those of US citizens in poverty receive the basic necessities of life: food, shelter, and education where possible.

__Eligibility__: This bill will include all of those people in the USA who are in need of the basic needs of life, mainly those who are divorced or widowed with children and who cannot support themselves.

__Terms and Benefits__: For our bill, we will increase the taxes on all cigarettes by .2%. We will then use these funds to help provide food, shelter, and water to those in poverty in the USA. If someone is caught cheating the system and just being lazy in order to obtain free food, shelter, etc., they will be prosecuted. We classify welfare needs as the basic needs of life which are: food, shelter, and education.

__Fiscal Impact__ The average cost of a box of cigarettes is around $4.75. The tax that we would put on those boxes would be about 8.2%, which means we would receive about $.39/box, times 17,400,000,000 boxes sold/year= $6,786,000,000. We will use these funds to provide food, shelter, and education to those in need.