Fixed.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 11/26/2010 4:03:31 AM PST by AtlasStalled
If its good enough for the Kennedys its good enough for me.
Back in the 70’s I used to haul sheet metal to Kansas and on the way back fill up with Coors which was unavailable in Tennessee. People thought it was something special for some reason although I never could see why.
I’d forgotten about how wonderful everyone thought Coors
was then. I worked at the local Chrysler dealership after
school and actually put air shocks on a guys station wagon
that did regular runs to Colorado for Coors.
Indeed, huzzah for the black marketeers. Never would get any good marijuana if it wasn’t for them.
Way back when Coors was only a beer drinker fantasy in the Northeast our local liquor store bought back from Colorado some Coors Beer. He was selling a six pak for $2.99 (reg beer was six pak was for $.98)
I bought one thinking I had reached Beer Nirvana and was totaled pee'd after cracking one and thinking it was a can of water LOL
Well, here’s an idea then. Figure out how many cartons you sell a month and add enough taxes to each carton that it totals $20. That will surely make up for your loss in tax receipts. Right? Wait, what? You mean taxes when up and gross tax receipts went down? Inconceivable!
Absolutely stunning revelation by the state. How will they ever make up this “unexpected” shortfall?
I bet they increase the tax on cigarettes. ;-)
Fixed.
Marlboros, Camels, Lucky Strike
beat me to it!
Aren’t taxes WONDERFUL????
This is always the outcome of excessive taxation.
It’s as predictable as noting that water is wet.
NY State raise its cigarettes so high, that it creates a prohibition-like black market, as citizens seek to avoid the irresponsible tax rates. Crime and violence are the inevitable result of government irresponsibility, as gangs form to organize the trade in cigarettes. What will it take for NY State to act responsibily and lower its cigarette tax rates?
I'm not worried about the sand monkeys. I'm worried about the Indians(Geronimo, not dot)and the Sicilians. Their enforcers are hard to reason with...
I guess they'll just have to raise taxes even higher. Of course that will cause some of them to turn the corner into pure insanity when, instead of raising more revenue, they will have numbers saying they are losing even more money.
Soon, cigarettes will cost $11,000 a pack and generate zero revenue...
What a totally unforseeable development. Who could have imagined such an event. I'm completely surprised. /s
Get away from the cities and develop an outlying market.
Coomo to the rescue.
If one was inclined to dabble in the dark market, (ahem)which state nearest to the east coast would be the best source for inventory? My “friend” would like to know...
Good points; I live in northern NJ, and in the past few years I’ve seen cigarette packs with Chinese and Cyrillic characters, as well as many with either a different state’s stamp or no stamp at all. Lots of gas stations sell things like this; I’d imagine the owners pick them up at duty-free shops when they take thei annual vacations wherever they come from. Even better: buying “loosies” in Newark (last I’d seen they were $.25 each). This has been illegal for some time, but it hasn’t made a dent in it.
They can’t stop our local liquor store owners from selling these things, because they can’t even stop them from selling alcohol to minors (or driving without vehile registrations, licenses, etc.). There’s strength in diversity. /s
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