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Wal-Mart employee “can’t afford” $15/week for health insurance, but can afford cigarettes
wordpress ^ | November 12, 2012 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

Posted on 11/12/2012 3:25:53 PM PST by grundle

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To: WKB

heh, it was a softball pitch just waiting for someone to hit it. There are going to be a lot of shocked ‘folks’ come 2014.


41 posted on 11/12/2012 4:41:16 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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To: grundle

Well if he is working in the right area of WalMart he should have access to cigarettes.
If he is working in payroll, he can ‘adjust’ his pay records.

Sure it is stealing - what do you call what the Government is doing to all of us?

BTW, noticing the price of cigs in the comments....I remember about 20 or 25 per pack with a couple of pennies in the side.

Then went in the Navy and they were .90 a carton and .10 a pack if they had to break open a carton....

Of course when making $75 per month that wasn’t all that cheap...unless overseas.


42 posted on 11/12/2012 4:43:16 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98 "Hope in one hand and $hiite in the other and see which fills up first".)
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To: Sybeck1

“My sister’s brother in law couldn’t afford baby formula but could get his cigs.”

Used to be the men in the family or the neighborhood would take such a person out back and explain the theory of prioritization to him.


43 posted on 11/12/2012 4:45:31 PM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: grundle

I wonder how much he spends on cigarettes each week. The article doesn’t say – but I’m guessing it’s more than $15.


I imagine it would be his own dammed business.


44 posted on 11/12/2012 4:56:29 PM PST by ravenwolf
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To: TigersEye

We must be the only non smokers on this thread.


45 posted on 11/12/2012 4:58:06 PM PST by WKB ( Remember "Bush Lied and People Died" Now it's "People died and Obama Lied")
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To: Drew68

Good for him. Why should he be forced to buy something that it is unlikely he’ll use. Healthy,


Me neither an we did not have to spend a fortune in the spa clubs to stay in shape, just work.


46 posted on 11/12/2012 5:02:31 PM PST by ravenwolf
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To: SkyDancer

“You have to be kidding. $85 a carton????”

Nope. Not kidding.State excise tax is $25.00 per carton,and then we have federal excise,and sales tax.

In NYC the state and city tax alone would be $58.50 per carton.That’s right,$58.50.

Federal excise tax is $12.00 a carton nationwide.

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47 posted on 11/12/2012 5:07:13 PM PST by Mears
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To: WKB
I guess it's just you. lol

I'm more angry about 0bamaCare than I am about most other issues though.

48 posted on 11/12/2012 5:13:23 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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To: beckysueb

in MN, as blue of a state as they get, they are 55 per carton for brand name smokes.


49 posted on 11/12/2012 5:20:10 PM PST by jurroppi1
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To: O6ret

simply based on the fact that smokers are not as healthy as non-smokers.


I don,t care if people smoke or not but in a free country people should be expected to take the responsibility for them selves, if i am going to pay for some one else,s medical care what does it matter if they smoke or not as that is not the point.

Also i like kissing women who smoke because the ones who don,t taste like oysters,just an observation.


50 posted on 11/12/2012 5:20:10 PM PST by ravenwolf
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To: SkyDancer

Well, my neighbor buys Gambler brand pipe tobacco for about $18.00/large bag. He buy tubes for under $2.00/carton. Says that he gets three cartons per bag. He has this little pull lever machine which packs the tobacco into the tube which makes a cigarette. Said that he paid $39 or $40 for the cigarette machine. I’ve seen it. It is easy to pack, pull the handle and produce a cigarette.


51 posted on 11/12/2012 5:29:23 PM PST by Bronzy
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To: Red_Devil 232

A few years ago my raise equaled the $2000 increase In premiums plus my prescription meds. Plus office visits tripled and an annual test that was 100 percent covered went to no longer covered. Ended up being pay cut afterwards.


52 posted on 11/12/2012 5:43:44 PM PST by Morris70
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To: Red_Devil 232

“My wife works for Walmart, asst. Manager, and our healthcare and dental insurance costs have been rising every year. It seems that when she gets a raise the healthcare/dental increase costs eat up the raise. I wonder how long before Walmart will continue to offer insurance?”

I think that this is the same story everywhere.

Hard to believe that 25 years ago my wife and I insured each other FOR FREE, and there was no “Coordination of Benefits”. We would have had a hard time spending money on health care even if we needed it!

So, whatever you make, consider this. I don’t have as much in my pocket as I did 25 years ago including this and general inflation, and I was “starting out” then...


53 posted on 11/12/2012 5:45:16 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: Red_Devil 232
The entire reason for Obamacare is to first make insurance unaffordable for companies to offer it as a benefit (I've seen projections to prepare for up to a 30% rate increase in 2014, when the majority of Obamacare kicks in) or employees to be able to afford it on their own, and eventually put the insurance carriers out of business. The eventual goal is for the government to take over providing health care.

I told my step-mother the other night that with Obamacare, she's supporting putting the same people in charge of the hurricane Sandy recovery in charge of her healthcare (both of her children are STILL without power at their homes!)

Mark

54 posted on 11/12/2012 6:07:11 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Mears

And that’s on top of the price? You would think that people would be trying to quit. I bet it’s cheaper to get those Nicorettes or something rather than spend that much on smokes.


55 posted on 11/12/2012 6:10:31 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church shows up at your funeral)
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To: SkyDancer

Yuou know, for that much money a month, the guy spend a fraction of that on natural anti-carcinogen herbs and minerals and really’do something amazing for his health.

Oh, but he wouldn’t look cool and get that nicotene hit.


56 posted on 11/12/2012 6:11:28 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: grundle

it is totally irrelevant as to the amount he pays for cigarettes. The idiots in the government raised the price of cigs. from $.40 cents a pack to over $5.00...did they think that it would affect the rich???? The poor idiots voted for this and now they can’t cope with it. Everyone needs some pleasure in life and for the government to force meaningless price raises on us so that our necesseties in life force us to give up our pleasures, is unforgiveable.


57 posted on 11/12/2012 6:11:45 PM PST by terycarl
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To: grundle

He is 22 so why does he need insurance for, isn’t his parents employers being forced to pay for his insurance by Obammy?


58 posted on 11/12/2012 6:12:31 PM PST by JohnD9207 (Isn't freedom worth fighting for?)
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To: O6ret
But smokers should be paying several times the ‘standard’ health insurance rate simply based on the fact that smokers are not as healthy as non-smokers

how's your weight??

59 posted on 11/12/2012 6:16:23 PM PST by terycarl
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To: Secret Agent Man

Right. I simply can’t see what the joy there is in smoking. I watch people smoke and there doesn’t seem to be any reason to it. You inhale this smoke then blow it out. All for show or something? What’s the point? Supposed to be classy??? I won’t date guys that smoke. They basically stink.


60 posted on 11/12/2012 6:18:43 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church shows up at your funeral)
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