Posted on 05/06/2014 9:03:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
I might just burn a Fuente Fuente Opus X tonight!!!
This is ridiculous. I buy lots of premium cigars on sale for less than $10/stick. Most of the ones I get are 85-94 rated and cost @ $3 each.
This will just make all cigars cost $10.
The liberals need control over people’s lives.
/johnny
/johnny
They can only kill me once.
/johnny
Ditto, but mine is still in the greenhouse. I buy a short season tobacco that does well in my area.
A bonus, growing it on the edge around my larger gardens keeps the deer, elk and moose out. They have no interest in tobacco so never try to bash through the plants.
Written on my porch, as I enjoy one of our additive-free, homegrown cigs...
I posted that for you over a week ago, did you read it?
/johnny
“Tobacco Taxes Parity: Increases the excise tax on small cigarettes; equalizes excise taxes for pipe tobacco, roll-your-own tobacco, and smokeless tobacco; clarifies the definition of small cigars; and closes an existing loophole to end mislabeling of tobacco products.”
http://www.harkin.senate.gov/press/release.cfm?i=339333
I have been watching this closely for the last few months.
The FDA still has not issued their new regulations—but I am stocking up just in case.
If cigars go to $10 minimum (or anywhere near them) it will be another blow to the liberty of the middle class.
The Republican Congress needs to step up and get cigars out of the clutches of the FDA.
Second hand bureaucrat pokes into our business, causes cancer.
50% of the reason is more Federal jobs for affirmative action hires. To expand Federal bureaucratic empires. For the Feds to seize ever more power from the states and counties and local governments
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/s194/text
a) In General- Subsection (f) of section 5701 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking $2.8311 cents and inserting $24.78.”
“Tax parity for smokeless tobacco.
(1) Section 5701(e) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking $1.51 and inserting $13.42;
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking 50.33 cents and inserting $5.37
is amended by striking but not more than 40.26 cents per cigar and inserting but not less than 5.033 cents per cigar and not more than 100.66 cents per cigar
Any product described in section 5702(c)(2) or not otherwise described under this section, including any product that has been determined to be a tobacco product by the Food and Drug Administration through its authorities under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, shall be taxed at a level of tax equivalent to the tax rate for cigarettes on an estimated per use basis as determined by the Secretary.
Loose cigarette tobacco taxes were raised 2,200% as soon as O’bastard took office. This move will raise the tax on loose pipe tobacco to the same amount. I think the tax is figured per pound/ounce.
It will raise the tax on cigars too, but that was never something I made a point on.
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