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I’m the man in Maryland
Buried in my tax
Won’t you come enslave me
Enslave me
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
This is prohibition-lite. Smugglers are licking their chops.
Ping
Beause the American people will apparently will put up with being boiled instead of deep-fried.
“will rise to 70%”
Choke, choke, cough, cough.
A carton Of US cigs bought outside the US, including shipping costs, goes for about $10. So let’s call that the actual cost per carton, and ignore shipping.
In MD, that same carton is about $75
That is $10, in cost, and $65 in taxes.
Then, they charge you sales taxes on the taxes. Anybody know what the MD sales tax rate is? I am guessing it is at least 5%.
So a carton of cigs is $10 in cost, and about $70 in taxes. This is a 70% tax?
New math.
VA is $0.30 a pack, and WV is $0.55 a pack. MD is a very skinny state where “the rich” probably drive to another state frequently and can get their cigarettes for the next week or so all at once without paying even the $2.00 a pack, let alone $3.00 a pack. This is only a tax on the poor. If they wanted the poor to quit smoking, they would raise the tax quickly. The way to raise revenue is through a series of moderate tax increases, exactly what they are doing. It sounds to me like this guy wants to tax the poor. [That was both true and fun to write, since it’s how libs usually frame their comments.]
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This is a good tax increase in that it invokes the law of supply and demand. An increase in price will produce a decrease in demand. That's a good thing. (insert obligatory mocking "for the children" line here)
It's estimated 88% of smokers start as teens. If you don't care about teens that's fine but let me quote the great Newt from '97....
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.
What is up with these tiny states and tobacco taxes?
Rhode Island went to $3.46/tax pack in ‘09 and have been mulling about how to get the rate back down - they are losing revenue....smoke-taxes are billowing out of every nook and cranny from their house on fire.
How close is Maryland to Virginia? Isn’t it - like - right there? :>)
Think that it could happen? *choke* *spit* ROFLMAO!!!
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...
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.
Sieg Hiel Comrad.