Richard A. Shoemaker

Richard A. Shoemaker was the assistant majority leader in the Wisconsin Assembly, who was a principle in the establishment of the commerical lobby organisation, National Center for Legislative Research with Paul G. Dietrich.

In 1984 Shoemaker wrote an eight-page article, commissioned by the Tobacco Institute and published in the NCLR's quarterly magazine, Legislative Policy (Jan-Feb 1984) More Taxes On Tobacco?.

The Tobacco Institute paid NCLR $30,000 (as a grant) in this year, and it made available reprints of Shoemaker's article available to all their lobbyists and state branches. Their memo advised that it:
 * Describes excise taxes on tobacco as regressive, inflationary and ineffective as a means of compensating for revenue shortfalls.

and they suggested that it was most suitable for
 * General distribution; most effective distributed to family and friendly citizens and business groups and as enclosure in Excise Tax File.