Posted on 01/07/2014 6:18:03 AM PST by Hoodat
Meanwhile, liberals continue to believe that setting at tax rate at 100% will bring in the most revenue.
Sheesh....why can’t I ever find these black market cigarettes? I’d buy ‘em in a minute :-)
Untaxed tobacco is easy to grow. This one isn't actually supposed to be growing, it's the wrong time of year, but a seed wound up in my fall potting soil mix, and I let it live.
.50 BMG shown for scale.
/johnny
I remember in the mid 2000s buying two Beatles CDs from a street vendor at a great price and when I opened them there was no stamped decorative label on the actual CD, just a stamped #.
The insert paper foldout pictures were not prenent
The CDs worked fine
I think Michael Jackson didn’t get his cut of that sale.
Odd, considering that New Englanders love big government, paying taxes, and socialist programs.
More power to 'em !
People who buy black market cigs just hate children’s health programs, which tobacco taxes fund ;-)
The free and noncoerced exchange of goods and services, ie, the free market, is the default condition, like gravity.
The left can try to impose their version of Utopia but it’s like trying to overcome gravity. Eventually, it falls down to the default state.
"Black market cigs": Having a buddy/relative living in Virginia, who brings a few cases of cigs every time he visits.
I dont know how it propagates, but you should encorage that!
dang, that's a good'n !
So, how long before the number of packs a person can buy ANYWHERE in the country is limited? It’s amazing that Bloomberg didn’t try to pass a law prohibiting Virginia from selling cigarettes at a lower price than New York. It wouldn’t have forced Virginia to do it but it would have made Bloomberg feel good.
/johnny
I don't smoke myself, but I'm getting so sick of this nanny government, I'm honestly thinking of turning this into a side business. Cartons of cigs are very easy to transport and the difference in tax rates are getting too big to ignore.
This is not unlike Canadians I have known who would brag about their more compassionate government, but then slam malls in Michigan every weekend and smuggle home five layers of new clothing to evade the GST.
Never mind that, don’t you know it is all the evil and heartless Republicans’ fault?
Shorter - Buuuuuuush!
One day I had too much time on my hands and calculated how many packs of cigarettes would fit in a large semi-van. Don’t remember the specific numbers, but do remember the cost to be at least a few $million.
It is similar to Prohibition and the ways people got around the ban on alcohol. Cigarettes will find their way into NY from places like VA, which has comparatively low taxes on cigarettes. A carton costs about $45.
Result of new Virginia tax increase: reduced revenues.
The day will come that growing your own tobacco will be illegal. In keeping with the typical quality of legislation we get, buried in the law will be a provision to make it illegal to grow your own fruit and vegetables.
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