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Gov. Christie would be squealing like a pig if someone taxed his donuts, like he taxes tobacco and e-cigarettes.
1 posted on 04/05/2014 2:51:42 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Hey, Fatso: Real conservatives don’t advocate higher taxes.


2 posted on 04/05/2014 2:58:01 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Don't give up! The liberals are buggering and aborting themselves into extinction.)
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To: DallasBiff

Nanny fat boi.


3 posted on 04/05/2014 3:01:15 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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Christie be gone.


4 posted on 04/05/2014 3:02:17 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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"Our goal is to achieve rough parity with the tax burden on conventional cigarettes. Why? Our main concern is public health,"

If believe buy that story, I have a bridge....

5 posted on 04/05/2014 3:02:24 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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Ah yes.... Mr. Nanny State himself lettings know what is good for us


6 posted on 04/05/2014 3:02:51 PM PDT by Nifster
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If I ever needed a reason to drop Christie fro0m a presidential run this tax will do it. Did anyone tell the dope these E smokes will save millions in health care costs.


7 posted on 04/05/2014 3:03:57 PM PDT by chatham
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Second hand water vapor? Before any one runs in here to complain about health care costs. Smokers pay more for insurance. Always have and I am DAMN sick of Chris Christie and all these other jerks telling me what I can and can not do. Just get your supplie over the internet. Screw New Jersey.


8 posted on 04/05/2014 3:09:06 PM PDT by defconw (Well now what?)
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e-cigarettes have not been shown to be a ‘safe’ alternative to regular cigarettes. Nor are they a proven path to smoking cessation.”


Where’s the proof? Anyone get cancer from e-cigs?


9 posted on 04/05/2014 3:10:47 PM PDT by RginTN
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How does the confiscation of $35,000,000.00 improve public health? If “smoking” ecigarettes harms people, taking money from them doesn’t help.


10 posted on 04/05/2014 3:15:10 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: DallasBiff

This is pure out and out lying, not health.


11 posted on 04/05/2014 3:27:20 PM PDT by umgud
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To: DallasBiff
Dear God,
Thank you for having kept me from ever having set foot in New Jersey, and I pray Your wise hand guides me ever thus.
Love,

Laz

12 posted on 04/05/2014 3:32:46 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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Sidamon-Eristoff said at an Assembly Budget Committee hearing today. “Contrary to the claims of some users, e-cigarettes have not been shown to be a ‘safe’ alternative to regular cigarettes. Nor are they a proven path to smoking cessation.”

Nor have you shown them to be unsafe. Nor have you shown that they have to be a "path to smoking cessation" to be a legal product. You're nothing more than another lying totalitarian. FOAD and take your fat RINO with you!

13 posted on 04/05/2014 3:36:53 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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The iron law of supply and demand. An increase in price results in a decrease in demand.

That’s a good thing if the drug delivery device is being use by kids.


14 posted on 04/05/2014 3:36:58 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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nobody’s claiming e-cigarettes are a path to cessation, but many people do quit smoking, or smoke cigarettes less frequently, once they switch to e-cigarettes.

The problem with cigarettes themselves (besides ugly butts on the beach from people who are too stupid to field-strip their smokes) has always been radioactivity picked up by the plants’ roots:

http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2012/05/24/tobacco-firms-have-failed-to-act-on-radioactivity-in-cigarettes-heres-why/

Besides nicotine, the liquid components of e-cigarettes are already in widespread use in injectibles, asthma inhalers, lotions, creams, soft-tissue ointments and in food as moisteners. I don’t know for certain about chinese nicotine, but the nicotine produced by USA-based dedicated labs that have come online recently is generally a synthetic, and so, hopefully, addresses the issue of polonium radioactivity.

It would seem if the real problem was, indeed, ‘public safety,’ presumed presidential candidate Christie would try to do us all a favor by pushing for investigative testing now to ensure that those who wish to escape the products of Big Tobacco, in fact, can, and with a safe product. Instead, all he wants is money to make up for the lack of real cigarette sales. It’s a cheap political trick - and beneath him.


16 posted on 04/05/2014 3:43:50 PM PDT by blueplum
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Portly puss-bag...
17 posted on 04/05/2014 4:02:16 PM PDT by MileHi
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Chubs can take responsibility for those who are weaning themselves off tobacco and now he makes it more difficult.

Good job chubby!


19 posted on 04/05/2014 4:14:16 PM PDT by dforest
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There was an article posted here a few week ago from one of the New York newspapers. The article said that nearly 60% of the cigarettes sold in New York are contraband from other states where the taxes are much lower.

The same thing is happening in New Jersey. Christie's a fool if he thinks this is going to raise that kind of revenue.

20 posted on 04/05/2014 4:36:26 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
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Bee & Ess ! And I’m not talking about ‘Aunt Bea’ either.


23 posted on 04/05/2014 5:09:32 PM PDT by lee martell
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What the chubby RINO really means is TAX MONEY to spend!


24 posted on 04/05/2014 5:36:46 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Unintended Consequences: Expanded Autism Spectrum now includes the entire Obama Administration)
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we all know this has nothing to do with safety, it’s all about the tax money.

and a fat-ass RINO is the one to prove us right.


25 posted on 04/05/2014 6:48:51 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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