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To: pissant

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.


11 posted on 04/01/2009 11:23:34 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Obama: removing the speed limit on the Road to Serfdom)
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To: KarlInOhio
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?

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.

35 posted on 04/01/2009 1:58:57 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Change is not a plan; Hope is not a strategy.)
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