Guess I'll wear these next time I go to the tobacco shop, just saying.
Posted on 02/25/2009 7:06:42 AM PST by ozark hilljilly
Which gives them cause to crack heads even harder.
Oy!
Never in my lifetime did I ever think I’d see my country turned on its’ head so fast.
But I bet we all have been saying that way too much lately.
I first bought cigatettes in 1971. Three packs of Camels were a dollar and a few cents. Leave it to Big Brother.
I’m so sick of this administrations plethora of “unintended consequences”!
I’m sure in their eyes it was all those evil conservative capitalists that made cigars popular, so therefor, anyone connected to the biz must be punished.
I’m sure someone will come up with some silly ass “green” technology they can busy themselves with instead of making cigars. Kinda like the Afghan farmers switching to crops other than poppies.
What’s the difference between buying smokes across the state line and buying anything else? I live in the southmost part of Chicago. When I used to smoke cigarettes, I always bought them in Indiana. The same for gasoline. The same for a lot of things, and do you know why? Not only is the tax on everything a lot less in Indiana — but the disparity between Indiana’s tax and Illinois’ tax has destroyed a lot of retail business in my part of Chicago. There isn’t a gasoline station within miles of my house in Illinois. There isn’t a regular convenience store that doesn’t also have a liquor department or an ethnic meat counter. But cross the line into Indiana, and it’s a whole different retail world — gas stations, smoke shops, grocery stores.
Our fine public servants would do better if they spent more time considering how their own insane and burdensome tax policies have damaged not only people lives, but also the economies of their jurisdiction, and spend less time finding out ways to threaten free consumers or turn them into criminals.
Remove the plastic covering that has the stamp on it and throw it away before you leave the state.
Nanny State PING!!!!!!!!!!
I saw a sign like that in North Carolina a couple years back, driving home from vacation. We stopped at a tobacco outlet where cartons and rolls of chewing tobacco were half the price as here in PA. We bought cartons and rolls for us and for our friends back home, but stopped at an ATM to get money out instead of using our debit card.
Is it less risky criminally to smoke pot?
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers.”
Quote by: Ayn Rand
(1905-1982) Author
Source: “Atlas Shrugged”, Part II, Chapter 3
Its less risky to bring in 25 mexicans in an Econoline van.
People will learn to do what they have to. What the idiots in the govt. will find out is that folks will find a way around them, that or people will give up smoking cause they just can’t afford it anymore, then what?
Our PRECIOUS tax revenues!!! This is not what we wanted!!!
(Reminds me of LOTR, you?)
Yes we have been.
I did not want to see this happen in my lifetime but I will deal with what is dealt too me.
A paper with "Democrat" in the title actually tells people that taxes on producers are passed
No, they can't quite bring themselves to say that it will. They say it likely will.
FFX tax agents raided our lobby deli last week. Seems the old guy running it was buying cigs at COSTCO and selling them at a slight markup. All taxed, of course.
But the COSTCO was over the county line, and while the tax rates are the same, the wrong county was getting the tax.
So they siezed all his cigs.
I remember when this was a free country...
Guess I'll wear these next time I go to the tobacco shop, just saying.
OUCH! HEY! OWWWWWWW!!
OK, OK I take it back!
Thanks for the ping!
Atlas the Smoker is Shrugging.
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