Posted on 09/20/2005 4:25:26 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes
Maine storekeepers say customers fuming about high cigarette tax
By GLENN ADAMS Associated Press Writer
HALLOWELL, Maine (AP) -- Taking time out to tend to customers who drift into his tobacco shop on a sunny Monday morning, owner Tom Allen showed little worry about the doubling of Maine's cigarette tax to $2 that just took effect.
"There's no impact on me whatsoever. If anything, it will help because people will stop buying packs and make their own," said Allen, whose Kennebec Tobacco Co. sells bags of loose rolling tobacco as a sideline to its main products, cigars and pipe products.
But farther west toward the New Hampshire border, storekeepers said they were hearing it from customers and seeing the first signs of regulars drifting to the Granite State to buy their smokes. New Hampshire's tax is 80 cents a pack, which makes a carton of cigarettes $12 less in that state than in Maine.
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also heard that all of the major credit card companies (in an agreement with ATF) will no longer pay websites that sell cigs across state lines........suggest finding a truck driver friend who passes through Kentucky
Ever since Taft raised the tax here in Ohio on cigarettes by $0.75, I've been bying loose tobbaco, cigarette tubes and a cheap, but easy to use, tube stuffer. I used to lay out $7.48 per day now it costs me $0.92 per day.
But at least I know how to spell cemetery.
No ... it's the latest step in an effort to increase TAXES.
Also,Mass State Police have been known to hang out in parking lots of NH fireworks stores before July 4th and following cars with Mass plates back into Mass and then stopping them (fireworks are illegal here).
Unless the state (guess I should say Commonwealth) gets a nice cut out of it.
Earlier this year,I drove down the East Coast (I-95) to Florida.I was really surprised to see that cigarettes in VA and the Carolinas are at least $3 a pack cheaper than in the northeastern People's Republics.
It almost made me wish that I smoked.
"tax to $2 that just took effect"
LOL.. In 1970 a pack of smokes cost 24 cents.
A gallon of gas cost 29 cents...
"Commonwealth" is the Massachusetts Power Structure's way of saying to working folks "what's yours is ours".
Well, that's what you get you mindless sheep of Maine that keep putting these morons into office.
One word for them: TOUGH!
I've been around a very long time, and used to "roll my own" when money got short. Smoking was accepted, and even celebrated during and after WWII. In the movies of those days the most sophisticated stars smoked in most of their scenes.
I quit smoking for personal reasons on April 19, 2001, but have never, and will never, complain about another person's right to smoke.
Public health problems, such as sodomy, are politically accepted, and even celebrated by the leftists in this country. After all, votes are accepted, no matter where they come from.
The simple political truth is this. The behavior that votes for me is acceptable.
My wife and fell in love with Conway on our NE trip many years ago. We changed many plans to be able to stay a couple of days longer.
We then went back just to visit there for a week a few years later.
lets see.......income tax(state&fed sometimes local)...FICA... estate tax...property tax...gasoline tax(state&fed)...liquor tax(state&fed)...tobacco tax(state&fed)...sales tax.......... taxes that are called something else......driver's license... license plates®istration...business license...hunting fishing license...firearms registration&permits.......a partial list at best off the top of my head........where are Franklin,Jefferson,Washington and friends when we need them?
Hmmm. Just out of curiosity, what was it that you liked about the place? I'm not overly fond of it myself. Too damm many people and congested as he11. It is nice over on the West Side Road and, of course, the scenery is spectacular in places. But that's true of much of NH.
LOL. It is a signiture.
";^)
I guess being a tourist and not a resident! lol
We had a great time there and the surrounding area. We loved to dine at the 1785 Inn.
Yes, I do - you volunteering?
I live about 8 miles south of the other (west) end of the Kancamagus Highway. Only go to Conway on business, which is about once a week.
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