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Not content with new tax hike, Md. tobacco foe wants more
The Washington Times ^ | May 21, 2012 | David Hill

Posted on 05/22/2012 6:26:30 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The founders were wise. This is why states are free to make there own decisions. People will vote with their feet. MD will wither and die.

Also, the reason the “yuuts” are buying small cigars is to hollow them out and fill them back up with weed. The cigar covers up the smell. Next time you enter a urban convenience store notice all the tobacco lying around outside...


21 posted on 05/23/2012 5:53:51 AM PDT by PilotDave (No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!!)
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To: PilotDave

“weed”

Just to finish that thought. The pols know this. This is the way they are trying to tax illegal drug use. This isn’t to save the yuuts, it’s to get in on some of that pusher dough. If you can’t beat them join them. Can’t arrest the little darlings for such a minor thing as drug use. That would be Raaacist. Nope. Besides, marijuana doesn’t make you violent.


22 posted on 05/23/2012 5:59:34 AM PDT by PilotDave (No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!!)
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To: Ken H

Marylanders - head West to Bethleham, PA and stock up at Cigars International. Great selection, great prices. Stock your humidor with great sticks and deny the libs your hard earned dollars.


23 posted on 05/23/2012 6:00:12 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Not Romney - Not ever!)
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry
Marylanders - head West to Bethleham, PA and stock up at Cigars International. Great selection, great prices. Stock your humidor with great sticks and deny the libs your hard earned dollars.

I am doing that for my big buys, but at the same time I will patronize my local stores just to not totally penalize them. They actually have worked hard to try and stop these f*cks who happen to govern us.

24 posted on 05/23/2012 6:12:50 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'll cling to my religion and guns till they're pried from my cold dead fingers!)
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To: Venturer
in an effort to combat what state health officials say is increased use of the products among teens give us greedy filthy so-called lawmakers more of your hard-earned dollars to waste on useless bulls*t programs

There; fixed it.

25 posted on 05/23/2012 6:20:50 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'll cling to my religion, cigars and guns till they're pried from my cold dead fingers!)
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To: libertarian27
How close is Maryland to Virginia? Isn’t it - like - right there? :>)

In the part of Virginia I live, the Maryland line is 8 miles away.

26 posted on 05/23/2012 6:27:11 AM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: Gabz
Virginia? Nuts!

Delaware is 30 min from the Eastern Shore and has NO Sales Tax (and is generally cheaper).

27 posted on 05/23/2012 7:58:48 AM PDT by doberville
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

So, ol’ Vinnie DeMarco jumped off the anti-gun (Marylanders Against Handgun Abuse, aka MAHA) gravy train when the checks stopped coming in; and now he’s jumped onto the anti-smoking gravy train. He was an a-hole then, and appears to still be an a-hole. Anything to control you. For a buck, of course.


28 posted on 05/23/2012 8:09:16 AM PDT by onemiddleamerican (FUBO and all your terrorist buddies)
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29 posted on 05/23/2012 8:28:22 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: doberville

The only time Delaware’s “no sales tax” claim really comes into play is on big ticket items and at the dollar stores. I know, I lived in Delaware More than 20 years before moving to Virginia.

Shopping in Delaware is more expensive, I see it daily in my shopping. I was at my SIL’s in Diver a short while back and we ran out of butter, so I made a run to the local Food Lion to grab a pound. The day before that I had bought butter in my local Food Lion here in Virginia - mine was 40cents cheaper, even after adding in the sales tax, than what I paid in Dover.

As for distance, as I said, I am 8 miles from the Maryland line, and I’m on the Eastern Shore just an hour south of Delaware. Between my house and the Maryland line there are 8 tobacco outlets and numerous convenience stores that all sell tobacco products.


30 posted on 05/23/2012 8:31:26 AM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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31 posted on 05/23/2012 9:39:11 AM PDT by BreezyDog (PLAN A: A Peaceful Restoration of the Republic.....PLAN B: A Restoration of the Republic)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Sieg Hiel Comrad.


32 posted on 05/24/2012 7:38:53 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Drango

With the current level of purging, I am really surprised you are still around. How does anyone that FAILS to engage their intellect allowed to hang around FR?


33 posted on 05/24/2012 7:42:36 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: CSM
Your not gonna cry are you? Was it the words of Newt that upset you? Here I'll repeat them...

Civilization cannot survive with twelve-year-olds having babies, fifteen-year-olds shooting one another, seventeen-year-olds dying of AIDS, and eighteen-year-olds graduating with diplomas they cannot read.

34 posted on 05/24/2012 5:43:03 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Drango

Either you have a reading comprehension issue or you are purposefly obtuse. Either way I am surprised you have survived the the current purging of the intellectual lightweights.


35 posted on 05/25/2012 6:43:39 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Drango

Good news: Jesus still loves you

Bad news: Limited government conservatives on FR still think you’re an asshole


36 posted on 05/26/2012 12:35:47 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer to drink a bunch of them. Stay thirsty my FRiends)
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To: doberville
Delaware is 30 min from the Eastern Shore and has NO Sales Tax (and is generally cheaper).

Virginia is ALSO on the Eastern Shore, abuts Maryland, and a carton of cigarettes, including sales tax, is $11 cheaper than in Delaware.

38 posted on 05/29/2012 1:52:10 PM PDT by Abby4116
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