Guess I'm going to be eating a lot more government cheese.
Posted on 03/11/2009 4:29:13 PM PDT by Morgana
Smokers Don't Like The Hike
HUNTINGTON W.Va. -- The federal tax on tobacco will increase from 39-cents to $1.01 in April. That increase has some smokers angry while others say it may be a reason to cut back or quit for good.
Smokers in West Virginia are bracing for a huge increase in price next month.
According to national report, New Yorkers pay the highest state tax at $2.75 per pack. South Carolina residents pay only 7-cents. State taxes on cigarettes in West Virginia are 25-cents per pack. Some smokers say the increase in taxes, whether state or federal will create a hardship on people who can least afford it.
Rob Hickman is a smoker. He says the increase may force some people to choose between bying cigarettes or food.
Kristin Wheatley is a non-smoker. She says some people may quit because they can't afford the higher prices.
Okay...I know a lot of you are smokers and don't like the tax, I just wanted you to see this idiot. Rob here has to choose between buying food and cigarettes. (Yes I know there was a typo in the article) Rob should know that FOOD comes first. What worries me is if Rob and others like him have kids and will choose cigarettes over food.
hotdogs, beans, and ramen noodles...so Rob can keep buying cigs.
Cigars?? Increased How much?
He is an idiot. But smile! If he chooses cigs over food, he won’t be around very long and neither will the offspring. LOL!!!!
I’d really like to quit. I just can’t stomach a DIME of my money going to fund SCHIP’s planned health care for illegal aliens.
Enjoy your smugness.
Your vice will be next.
Choosing between food and cigarettes is no contest. Of course you skip the food and buy the cigarettes!!!
Gonna be a lot of unhappy Zero voters come April 1st.
Wrong. It is the lower socio-economic strata that smoke the most and they'll continue to smoke. The kids may not have enough food, but mom and dad will get their cigarettes.
I think the biggest gainer in that debacle was organized crime who continue to make a killing selling untaxed tobacco on the lack market.
If you have high speed internet...watch the video...on the 6pm news he said “it would be choice between cigarettes and bologna” Dude! Bologna at Save-a-lot is only .99 cents.
That is so unreal! Watch the video!!!!
Guess I'm going to be eating a lot more government cheese.
While others dont give a toss?
GET THE HELL OUT OF MY WALLET!
It is about 50-50. Some have quit, or at least tried to. You are correct however and it worries me. Kids will go with out food so ma and pa can smoke.
I’ve thought that America should sue the Indian tribes that introduced the Tobacco to the settlers. That would be interesting...
Also, to fund AIDS research, a $20 cover charge at every gay bar, and a $50 charge at bathhouses.
I mean, why should smokers be singled out for their bad behavior?
Today I saw a HUGE jump here in VA.
Up to $4.79 per pack of Marlboro.
I will have none of this shit! Time to give myself a tax cut!!
The article is about another tax on the poor and middle class, which Obama said he would not do. Whether they can afford it or not is not the point; the tax is.
YOU SAID IT!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS ONE IS OBAMA’S FAULT!!!!!!!!!!
OBAMA FAULT....OBAMA’S FAULT OBAMA’S FAULT!!!
not bush!
Good news for the Indians... and blackmarketeers
What’s he care?
Our tax dollars are paying for his smokes.
Now why is that supposed to be anyone elses problem? Maybe the gubmint is to blame for putting ole Rob in that position.
Soon there will be folks out there that have to choose whether they drink booze, eat fast food, or buy real food.
Well, I’m already down to eating ramen noodles and canned soup and I don’t smoke. Sometimes I splurge and buy bean burittos at taco bell. 99cents each.
This economy has got me scared to pry open my wallet.
You seem to have the smoking parents convicted of neglect already, but don’t seem particularly concerned about UNFAIR TAXATION.
NY can tax the cr@p out of them but until they sucessfully go after the Native Americans we will pay 9.50 a carton for their brand.
Of course the Buffalo News came out with an article saying since they aren’t under gov. regulation that they are probably full of poison.
Why do you care?
Given some of the crap(I'm being generous) you post around here, you seem to have some authoritarian/leftist tendency with your 'thought processes'.
Woulda been a lot more melodramatic if she’d said the poor smokers will be selling their kids for cigarette money....:)
Hey...
It could happen. ;)
I live here dude, I know what these people are capable of. We are talking white trash, welfare, West Virginians. I am sure you have them in your state. They are everywhere. What do you expect? After all they are only Democrats who don’t know any better.
So when the tax revenues from tobacco start declining as people seek other avenues to indulge their self-destructive tendencies, what will the .gov tax next to make up for “the shortfall?”
Three letters: AIG
That said, it is time to quit; for me. And there will be many more like me. But the fun part will be when other things people like get taxed to high Heaven.... like the "fat taxes" in New York. Politicians will wonder where their tax revenue went, when smoking declines, and move onto taxing other things.....
Furthermore, they've outlawed smoking just about everywhere outside your home, with some states trying to outlaw smoking in your home. Then they decide cigarettes need to be "fire standard compliant," so idiots will stop burning down their houses; this makes the cigarettes taste like crap (fortunately it hasn't hit here... yet, but will in Jan).
So, they've managed to take something enjoyable and ruin it completely. Sounds like "they won;)"... its time to quit and let others pick up the lost tax revenue.
You know, I wish the Nanny State was as adamant at outlawing abortion as it was smoking..... at least the second hand affects of abortion are immediately demonstrative at killing another human being.
Wait till they see the prices on loose tobacco (roll your own) double or more. The prices on the cigarette tubes are going to more than triple.
The SCHIP house of cards is destined to fail. They plan to fund it with cigarette taxes that will cause people to quit. At the same time the FDA will be regulating tobacco out of existence. *Tah dah* No money for SCHIP.
They are people. People who are being TARGETED by the gov for unfair taxation.
You are fighting the wrong fight.
Dude! That would not surprise me at all!
G. K. Chesterton said:
“The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.” -
RYO is to increase 2,200% $25 dollars a lb.
I use RYO
How about $1 a big mac tax, to fund obesity?
How about a $200 per child tax to encourage smaller families?
How about a $1 / condom tax, just to remind us what the government is doing to us?
....Bob
I know a lot of people who will buy booze instead of food or gamble their paychecks away. What’s the difference it’s their money and I’ll bet we the taxpayers support more boozers and gamblers than smokers
First of all I am just posting the tax.....yes I think it is unfair.
In post #1 was my complaint. My complaint is that some moron will choose cigarettes over food. Now we don’t know if he has kids. What we do know is that there are others like him. The tax is there and thanks to Obama it will be there. That should not stop people from doing stupid things like buying cigarettes over food esp. if kids are in the picture. You know that is what is coming. This man saying he would have to choose “cigarettes over food” is just plain moronic. Food is a necessity of life. Cigarettes are a pleasure. This man should give up another pleasure if he wants to smoke that bad!!!!!!!!!
Paying $9.00 a pack here in NYC. Problem is nobody in NYC buys their smokes here anymore. Either go to Long Island, bootleggers or Indian reservations. There is a huge black market in smokes in this city and it came just in time because prostitution and gambling profits are way down for the Mafia-they need the money and I’d rather they have it than Bloomberg, Patterson or Øbama.
What is moronic is accepting unfair taxation on your fellow citizens
C'mon,you really don't believe that lefty style argument do you?
Too much in my opinion, I have heard a dollar a cigar.
I have been stocking up on my favorites, before the hike.
I can soon buy Cubans for the price of non-Cubans.
I wonder how people would take a 2,200% increase tacked on to the price of a happy meal?
Precisely, well said.
If he’s in NYS the kids will get free lunch. Breakfast and dinner will be on the EBT card. No one will go hungry here.
Enjoy your Gubmint Gruel its all you need to live. Steak is just PLEASURE.
What is moronic is voting for a president that let this happen! But wait, there’s more! Zero has more taxes coming! Not just for the smokers!
Sarah Palin 2012
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