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See post 5. Nanny Bloom-wad has a muzzie black-market operation ongoing in NYC funding terrorism.
60% of cigarettes sold in New York are smuggled: report - CNN Money
Black-market cigarettes costing NY $20M a month - New York Post
3 Out of 5 Cigarettes Sold in State With Highest Cigarette Taxes are ...
Large scale cigarette smuggling networks in New York State are dominated by tight knit nationality-based networks, primarily families through blood or marriage of Lebanese, Yemeni, Jordanian and Palestinian descent.
Federal and New York State law enforcement officials estimate that nearly 60 percent of all convenience retail outlets in New York City are now Arab-owned, and with the Arab networks compartmentalized by ethnicity and family ties, the risk of infiltration by law enforcement is minimal.
In total, law enforcement officials in New York State estimate that well-organized cigarette smuggling networks generate between $200,000 – $300,000 per week. A large percentage of the money is believed to be sent back to the Middle East where it directly or indirectly finances groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda.
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No shock there.
Back in the 60s at the Ohio factory I worked in, there were always cars in the parking lot selling trunkfulls of low tax Kentucky cigarettes.
And that was when the incremental difference was literally pennies.
Wunderbar. Just frickin’ wunderbar.
Nothing in this budget proposal is actually going to get through the House or even see the floor.
Its a federal tax so it doesn’t help the honest entrepeneurs involved in state to state cigarette tax arbitrage. (I won’t call them smugglers, the real criminals are greedy statists who rob people of their money for their own good of course).