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Mass:Taxachusetts Robs Lawyers Who Helped It Rob the Tobacco Industry
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| 11-04-03
Posted on 11/04/2003 8:13:47 PM PST by SheLion
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Do NOT forget! It's the SMOKERS WHO PAY TAXES ON CIGARETTES that are paying for the Tobacco Settlement! NOT the Government, and NOT Big Tobacco. THE SMOKERS! So.......are they going to raise taxes on cigarettes in Mass AGAIN??????
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posted on
11/04/2003 8:13:48 PM PST
by
SheLion
To: *puff_list; Just another Joe; Great Dane; Max McGarrity; Tumbleweed_Connection; Madame Dufarge; ...
The poor smokers in Mass...........sorry guys.
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posted on
11/04/2003 8:14:21 PM PST
by
SheLion
(Curiosity killed the cat BUT satisfaction brought her back!!!)
To: SheLion
Some one should tell these lawyers that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have (with due respects to Tommy Jefferson)
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posted on
11/04/2003 8:20:52 PM PST
by
2banana
To: SheLion
I think this is hysterical. Taxachusetts made a deal and now they want to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs in order to get more eggs out.
If the attorneys prevail, they will be entitled to MORE fees because they had to sue to collect the fees.
ha ha ...... ha
To: SheLion
The smart smokers in Mass don't buy their cigs in Mass.
They will keep adding taxes until there is a black market such as the one seen on the streets of New York City.
Psssst!!!!You want to buy a pack of cigs,bub?
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posted on
11/04/2003 8:30:37 PM PST
by
Mears
To: SheLion
Massachussetts really has these lawyers smoking. Hee,hee,hee, sue the lawyers for polluting the air. Poetic justice....injustice....whatever, is the sweetest kind.
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posted on
11/04/2003 8:40:23 PM PST
by
F.J. Mitchell
(If you seen yourself as other people do, you'd laugh too.)
To: SheLion
You can bet it won't be just smokers in NJ. They will pay no matter where they are from!
To: SheLion
Mass:Taxachusetts Robs Lawyers Who Helped It Rob the Tobacco IndustryThere's no honor among thieves.
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posted on
11/04/2003 8:44:13 PM PST
by
#3Fan
To: SheLion
There they go again in Mass-a-taxes!!!
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posted on
11/04/2003 9:02:46 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Visit www.geocities.com/geronl)
To: GeronL
Watching sharks in a feeding frenzy can be breathtaking....or greedy lawyers fighting greedy politicians. Then again how do you tell the difference?!
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posted on
11/04/2003 9:06:57 PM PST
by
blastdad51
(Proud father of an Enduring Freedom vet, and friend of a soldier lost in Afghanistan)
To: blastdad51
Nope its a tiger by the tail. The politicians thought they were being "cute" buy trying to place a dollar cap. They were fools, it is like playing with black magic. The courts do not look at the amount of the fee as to whether the parties had a knowing agreement. The politicians have to basically testify that they were ignorant as to what they were signing.
They SHOULD have made a sliding scale in which the percentages go down as the dollar amounts go up at each incrimnet. Perhasp 25% of the first 50 million and then 20% of the next fifty and so on. reaching a maximum minimum of 5% per 50 million. But hey, these politicians are soooooo smart.
To: SheLion
Big BUMP for the morning!!!!
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posted on
11/04/2003 10:00:27 PM PST
by
Gabz
(Smoke-gnatzies - small minds buzzing in your business - SWAT'EM)
To: SheLion
"Is a deal a deal? Is a promise a promise? Is a contract a contract?"Funny to hear a lawyer ask this. He, of all people, should know the answer:
Only If You Can Enforce It.
To: SheLion; Gabz; Mears
It is kind of gratifying, watching the hyenas sqabble over the bones.
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posted on
11/05/2003 2:29:25 AM PST
by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: SheLion
Democrats and their lawyers....
They'll get together again. Why, I wouldn'
t doubt that the lawyers are having trouble parking the money, and that later they will get more in intrest and penalties from Democrat judges.. Twisted, corrupt, dark but this is Massachusetts.
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posted on
11/05/2003 3:56:09 AM PST
by
Leisler
To: SheLion
If I was from Mass LandoKennedy I'd only pay 1/4 of my state income tax. I'd attach a note saying, "I feel 1/4 is fair. After all enough is enough."
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posted on
11/05/2003 4:18:31 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Living fast is fine as long as you steer well and have good brakes.)
To: longtermmemmory
I think this is hysterical. Taxachusetts made a deal and now they want to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs in order to get more eggs out. It's like THIS longtermmemmory:
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posted on
11/05/2003 5:10:45 AM PST
by
SheLion
(Curiosity killed the cat BUT satisfaction brought her back!!!)
To: Sunshine Sister
You can bet it won't be just smokers in NJ. They will pay no matter where they are from! Why do you think they want their paws in the Internet so bad????
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posted on
11/05/2003 5:11:58 AM PST
by
SheLion
(Curiosity killed the cat BUT satisfaction brought her back!!!)
To: Leisler
In Texas, the lawyers got 2.5 BILLION for doing practically nothing since the water on the tobacco suit was carried by other states and Texas was late to the trough. But one good result was that our dem Attorney General at the time, Dan Morales, got even more greedy, made up some false expense accounts for his trial lawyer buddies, and is now sitting in jail.
To: SheLion
Do NOT forget! It's the SMOKERS WHO PAY TAXES ON CIGARETTES that are paying for the Tobacco Settlement! NOT the Government, and NOT Big Tobacco. THE SMOKERS! I've known that all along.
And to the smoker, what difference does it make whether the state keeps more, or the law firms get more?
This does not affect the total amount, just how the legal thugs and the thugs with the guns divvy it up.
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posted on
11/05/2003 5:19:44 AM PST
by
Publius6961
(40% of Californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks.)
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