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Mike DeWine: “This money would go to working families who have children…”

Featuring: Mike DeWine, Republican | Governor of Ohio

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Published | Video Starts at 21:20

As far as the cigarette tax, you know, when you have that discussion, you have to look at where that money again is going. And in this case, This money would go to working families who have children under the age of seven and they could get up to $1,000 per child. And that seemed to me to be a very good trade off. We can't do it any other way. We have to do it this way. (21:20–21:32)

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Asserts that funds from the cigarette tax would be directed to families with young children.

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