Mr. Speaker, I appreciate that question. It is a well founded question.
What I was trying to point out is that after having 167 million pounds of production quota and another 5.5 million pounds over that, farmers are going to be forced to take a lower price for tobacco if it works the same as it does in other commodities.
With this increased sale of tobacco of 173 million pounds, that little bit of taxation that is going to be put on them by the federal government will not nearly compensate for the gains
they are going to make on the huge amount of sales in the tobacco industry.