Posted on 04/01/2009 11:10:42 AM PDT by pissant
I have one cig left in my pack (purchased yesterday). Will be quitting now. Thanks BIG Gov’t!
Be thankful others keep paying for smokes. It supports a beautiful region of the country. Those farmers are still in bizness. Beat the f*** out of the land being covered with more strip malls selling chinese made trinkets.
simply type “cheap cigarettes” into google (or better yet, www.cuil.com) and many links will come back..
NOTE: MANY states prohibit the purchase of cigarettes from sellers outside of their state. Check to see what your state laws are.
Wonder what’s involved to grow yer own? As easy as growing pot?
It’s like growing tomatoes, they are in the same plant family, nightshade.
The growing is easy. It’s the aging and curing that is a bear.
Then find a way to circumvent your states confiscatory added taxes. I recommend the indian tribes.
on TOP of these latest increases, I understand (I may be mistaken), the State of Illinois wants to add ANOTHER $10 per carton tax..
A change we all can believe in. Buck Farrack
Soooo, for the same reasons as above, we tax all recreational devices (didn't some actress die recently as a result of skiing?). You can get hurt doing these things and they also have an effect on health costs, lost productivity, etc.
Pornography is said to be detrimental to society, so we tax X-rated movie tickets at $20, R-rated tickets at $10, The PG's at a graduated scale and no tax for the G movies. That should give Hollywood incentive to make more G movies and less R and X-rated ones. But, boy howdy, will they howl, as it now is their ox that is being gored!
I say, "Tough!"
He crunch up a pack of Lucky Strikes and tossed them in the trash and quit cold turkey when Truman put the first tax on cigarettes while yelling "I'll be G-D D#MN if those bastids will get a penny out of me!"
I quit before the last tax round however a bit more quietly. ; )
I’m guessing they haven’t. What that fact has to do with my post, I don’t know.
I thought applying unconscionable taxes to a specific identifiable group only was unconstitutional!
I've been reading it in all the newspapers, heard it on all the networks.
Well, is it or isn't it?
For the children??
These are all legal now?
Muggings for the children?
Burglary for the children?
Bank robbery for the children?
I'm confused.
No need to exxagerate. It's only 2264%
I wish there were some way to determine if the Federal Government has ever before in history increased taxes on any legal product by that percentage and gotten away with it.
No, I would not include previously untaxed items which were later taxed.
Remember when one of our brain-dead congresscritters got a "luxury tax" passed on yachts?
Lasted about 3 months, as I recall. The "expected" revenue rise was totally negative! As was the unemployment in that sector of the econmy totally positive.
Oh, sorry I bothered you. I was just wondering and guess you were handy. My question had nothing to to do with your post.)
No worries. I thought it was a leading question.
I honestly don’t know the answer.
tobacco tax is a mechanism to effect further egregious acts, since precedence is “a priori”.
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