[EagleUSA]

TAX, TAX, TAX, TAX, TAX. We are witnessing absolute runaway liberalism. Tax and spend beyond all imagination is a freight train headed our way -—

[massgopguy]

This won’t help the City of Boston as Cigar Bars have been marked for death in two years.

[DogBarkTree]

Oh The Humanity!

[weegee]

Before too long, Castro will be dead and the embargo on Cuban cigars may be eased. Right at the time that cigars are outlawed regardless of nation of origin.

[weegee]

Smoke your money instead of just lighting cigars with it.

[Red in Blue PA]

Tax everything which might be remotely dangerous.

Surprised there isn’t a skiing tax, Or a mountain biking tax.

I guess it is only a matter of time.

[Craigon]

JR Cigar is having an awesome “S-CHIP sale” on some good Cigars to lighten their inventory before S-CHIP hits. Some really good buy... Stocking up!

http://www.jrcigars.com/

[ml/nj]

But I thought he promised no tax increase for those of us who weren't making more than $250K/year?

ML/NJ

[KevinDavis]

What happened to the “Blue Dogs” Democrats who was “supposed” to be “Conservative”???

[Oatka]

Lucky for me I quit a couple of months ago - of a sudden, my favorite cigars (Swisher Sweet Slims, Phillies Cheroots and Muriel Coronellas) all started tasting like crap. Tried to hang on another month or so and finally smoked the last one. A month later cigars started making big jumps - $1.65 to $2.25 overnight, etc.

And now this piece of crap - anything to screw the little guy, under the guise of “it’s for the children”. What happens, as it has with cigarettes, when people do stop smoking and revenue drops? Ah well, there’s always the general treasury and besides, it’s for a good cause anyway.

[cgbg]

Government taxes always have strange second and third-order effects. This one is a classic.

Because there is a cap on the tax and a very high incremental tax rate (40%+) it will be less expensive cigars that will hurt the most (on a percentage basis). Those cigars are often smaller or of lower quality than the higher-end smokes.

They are often smoked by folks of lesser means.

In addition cigarette sized cigars will be heavily taxed (more every two years for the next six) until that part of the industry is decimated.

Congress' policy preference is clear--rich folks smoking big expensive high quality stogies are good, poor folks smoking cheap smaller cigars are bad.

[TC Rider]

Cigars

Guns

Talk Radio

The conservative internet

and so it goes..