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Wineke: Taxing smokers to pay for budget is unfair policy

After all this time, it looks as if the Legislature will vote on a budget today that Gov. Doyle will sign.
That ‘s such a relief we might be forgiven if we were to ignore the pesky little fact that the budget rests on a bed of funds that are extorted from one segment of the state ‘s residents and stolen from another.