Arkansas smokers buy Missouri's cigarettes (4 cartons= Felony!)

Arkansas Democrat Gazette ^ | Feb 22, 2009 | Bill Bowden

[longtermmemmory]

how can they watch a person’s purchases without a warrent?

[Mad Dawgg]

"Arkansas smokers buy Missouri's cigarettes (4 cartons= Felony!)"

The Looters will punish you for "unamerican" Economic Activity!

[Beagle8U]

That $25 per pound tax is on the roll ya own, loose cigarette tobacco.

[Mad Dawgg]

"People, learn to grow your own."

Yeah and then your "Patriotic" Neighbors (Liberals) will use Google Earth to turn you into the looters for illegal crops planted to deprive the state of taxes.

[ElectricStrawberry]

Our deluded guvna proposed a chip in the inspection sticker that tracks every mile in the State.

“I honestly don’t know why my chip is not working, Guvna...”

At the same time, he proposed a HUGE gas tax and toll hike....something like 29 cents per gallon and a $5 bridge/tunnel hike.

....but it was all a scam to get the People to accept the lesser evil....look how nice he is....we’re ONLY getting a $2 toll hike AND a 19 cent per gallon tax hike.

How kind of them.....

[mkcc30]

“...we anticipate a significant increase in tobacco smuggling.”

My God it has come to this?! “Tobacco smuggling”?!!
In a country ran by a Phony a Fruit and a Feminazi I guess anything is to be expected.......

[ozark hilljilly]

[stainlessbanner]

Tobacco-runners...the moonshiners of the 21st century

[ozark hilljilly]

“My God it has come to this?! “Tobacco smuggling”?!!”

Tragic, ain’t it? Welcome to the brave, new, THIRD world.

[Between the Lines]

If the value exceeds $100, it's a Class C felony, punishable by three to 10 years in prison.

Wow, you only get 5 years in prison from the feds, and that is for smuggling 300 cartons or more.

[mkcc30]

The feds only create crime they NEVER prevent it.

[AD from SpringBay]

Arkansans may legally possess one carton plus one pack of cigarettes that don't have an Arkansas cigarette tax, said Gabe Holmstrom, a spokesman for the state attorney general's office. Arkansans can have 50 cigars or three pounds of loose smoking tobacco without the state tax stamp. If they possess more than that, or sell cigarettes in Arkansas that don't have the state stamp, "it's a criminal offense," Holmstrom wrote in an e-mail.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this bitter clinger territory? How much governmentis too much and just what will it take for people to stand up to this $hit?

[bfree]

The police have become nothing more than revenue collectors. Fighting crime is secondary.

[ozark hilljilly]

My thoughts exactly!
Criminalizing just plain folk.
Oh, well...fear and paranoia keeps the masses in check, right?

[OB1kNOb]

I guess next fall during deer season, I’ll have to keep a sharper eye out and avoid coming upon illegal tobacco crops along with the pot crops grown in the woods.

[ozark hilljilly]

“How much governmentis too much and just what will it take for people to stand up to this $hit? “

Once it becomes ineffective to do anything to stop it.

(Sorry, my cynic hat is screwed on real tight today!)

[RasterMaster]

Guess the Obamatrons should be screaming about how we’ll be viewed by the rest of the world now that their livlihoods are in jeopardy....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzS9dvBAPMU

[mkcc30]

Yeah or it keeps the masses on the edge of revolt.....

[twistedwrench]

Woo Hoo, Winston Cup is back!!

[tbw2]

Wow, you could get a felony for buying lower tax cigarettes across state lines but NOT for smuggling in people who don’t pay taxes to the country they shouldn’t even be in ...