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To: RikaStrom
Those who ignor history tend to repeat it, particularly it's mistakes.

In an effort to balance budgets, and get more smokers to quit smoking state and local governments across the nation have recently jacked cig taxes into the stratosphere in many locales.

The laws of unintended conseqences and the example of Prohibition should have been enough of a warning that it won't work. So of course the perorations of these same greedy governments begins in earnest, and the tarket of their rantings, Cigarette smuggling!!!!!!!!

19 posted on 08/06/2002 7:13:05 AM PDT by Gabz
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To: Gabz
They should look further back than Prohibition... they need to go back to the Tea Tax.

A+

45 posted on 08/06/2002 7:29:35 AM PDT by RikaStrom
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