yup..all they’re gonna do is create a huge black market for this stuff..
What will they exorbitantly tax when it doesn't because of all the people quitting today or in the very near future?
Increase of 259% is more accurate.
Possibly proportional to the increase in bounty collected on fascist politicians.
So I take it you are unhappy with this, Pissy? ;-)
Seriously, I think they should have the balls to just make tobacco illegal. As long as they keep it legal for the sole purpose of collecting tax revenue, governments are complicit with and ill effects of tobacco.
As for me, I am a non smoker but do believe smoking is a personal choice and not mine to regulate. I have feet. I can leave a smoke filled room.
Didn’t the tax for loose tobacco go up something like 2400% to catch all those people who started to roll their own and “cheat” the government out of its hard earned money? Time to photoshop some of those WW II victory garden posters with rows of tobacco plants to aid in the fight against tyranny.
So who’s got links to the cheap ones on the internet? Share please!
Before the tax, I was buying 7 packs of American Spirits a week.
Since they announced the tax, I spent about $250 on an 18 month supply of RYO and cut my consumption in half.
At best, they won’t see another dime from me until the Fall of 2010. That’s if I don’t start growing my own, which I plan to.
They’re going to kill tobacco revenues.
....I quit 5 years ago for health reasons....but even then I refused to pay over-the-counter-prices for smokes...I was mixing Prince Albert 50-50 with Bugler and rolling my own...you’ll see more people doing that I expect....or just go buy a couple pounds of leaf tobacco from a farmer and avoid the whole system....Americans smoked pipes that way for 300 years without the government taxing them or retailers charging them.
Perhaps back to a pipe and find a Virginia farmer a smoker can barter with.
Even at 75 cents a pack, which I think was the 1982 price for a pack when I quit, I have saved $14,782 by now. With the price hikes and taxes added since then...much, much more.
Wonder what’s involved to grow yer own? As easy as growing pot?
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!"
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.
Miss King on smoking:
It's this: I think suicide qua suicide is weak and shameful, but maybe, if I just keep smoking, I can hasten my exit from this Walpurgisnacht called America and escape the mephitic cultural collapse that Nice-Nelly conservatism is powerless to stop.
This is probably wishful thinking in view of my family's medical history, but it points up another benefit of cigarettes we no longer hear about: consolation. Even the word is gone from the language now, but it was what came through in World War II newsreels showing weary soldiers and refugees lighting up. In their most despairing moments a cigarette was all they had, and increasingly I feel the same way.
There goes my chance at Keynote 2000, even if I work on my perkiness and arrange to rent a baby.
The 2000 reference suggests that this was written in 1999 or 2000, but no luck finding the entire original text.