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Maine storekeepers say customers fuming about high cigarette tax
New Hampshire Union Leader ^
| September 19, 2005
| Glenn Adams
Posted on 09/20/2005 4:25:26 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes
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To: patton
Not me but my wife is looking for a good paying job. She spells even better than I do.
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:46:00 PM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(I'm just sitting here on the Group W bench.)
To: Past Your Eyes
Sorry, the job pays 10% of what I get paid - nothing. LOL.
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:51:00 PM PDT
by
patton
("Hard Drive Cemetary" - forthcoming best seller)
To: Past Your Eyes
I'm a smoker and I can remember when people said "when it gets to $2.00 / pack, I'm quitting". Then $3.00... then $4.00, etc...
The price of cigarettes is really remarkably elastic.
To: Pessimist
I switched to a pipe when they went to $.30/pack in the machines in the dorms when I was in college.
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posted on
09/20/2005 6:24:27 PM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(I'm just sitting here on the Group W bench.)
To: billhilly
I quit smoking for personal reasons on April 19, 2001, but have never, and will never, complain about another person's right to smoke.
Thank you. I've found that the most ardent anti smoking NAZI's are, cough, former smoker's! Blackbird.
To: billhilly
I quit smoking for personal reasons on April 19, 2001, but have never, and will never, complain about another person's right to smoke.
Thank you. I've found that the most ardent anti smoking NAZI's are, cough, former smoker's! Blackbird.
To: patton; Just another Joe; Madame Dufarge; MeeknMing; steve50; Cantiloper; metesky; kattracks; ...
You pay eighty cents a pack, and you think you live free? What an amazing thing. We figured it out: all Augusta had to do was tax every can of beer by one cent and that would have taken care of their budget. But no, they had to lay this tax all on the backs of the smokers again!
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posted on
09/21/2005 4:02:19 AM PDT
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: patton; All
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posted on
09/21/2005 4:13:05 AM PDT
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: Rudder
I started rolling my own a year before he raised it again. I was still pissed off from the first time. That RHINO is the worst guv we've ever had, regardless of party.
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posted on
09/21/2005 4:29:28 AM PDT
by
The Foolkiller
( Why......That sounds.....FOOLish!)
To: SheLion
Better get everybody back over to the poll thread-the Taliban are starting to vote again.
50
posted on
09/21/2005 5:35:58 AM PDT
by
The Foolkiller
( Why......That sounds.....FOOLish!)
To: The Foolkiller
Better get everybody back over to the poll thread-the Taliban are starting to vote again. Figures.
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posted on
09/21/2005 6:54:07 AM PDT
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: SheLion; The Foolkiller
53-47 in favor of repealing.
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posted on
09/21/2005 7:27:53 AM PDT
by
Gabz
((Chincoteague, VA) Tryin' to Reason with Hurricane season)
To: SheLion
Good to see you here, sweetheart!
I had a guy the other day explaining to me what a nice guy Baldacci was. I had to explain that being a nice guy with a low watt IQ does not translate into being a good manager of the people's money.
They love their hometown boy here...
53
posted on
09/21/2005 7:52:08 AM PDT
by
metesky
(This land was your land, this land is MY land; I bought the rights from a town selectman!)
To: metesky
Good to see you here, sweetheart! Thanks so much metesky! Its been a long hard road for me. I lost most of my summer. :(
Hopefully, I am back on the mend again!!! :)
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posted on
09/21/2005 8:47:40 AM PDT
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: metesky
I had a guy the other day explaining to me what a nice guy Baldacci was. I had to explain that being a nice guy with a low watt IQ does not translate into being a good manager of the people's money. We figured it out that all Augusta had to do was tack one cent on each can of beer and the budget would have been fixed.
But no, the lawmakers had to dump the whole load on the backs of the Maine smokers ......again!
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posted on
09/21/2005 8:49:49 AM PDT
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: SheLion
"Maine people overwhelmingly support this tax increase," said the Maine Coalition on Smoking or Health."And this makes it right?," says the Madame Dufarge Coalition on Smoking or Homicide.
Good to see ya', darlin.'
To: Madame Dufarge
"Maine people overwhelmingly support this tax increase," said the Maine Coalition on Smoking or Health. Well, when only 25-30% of the people in Maine smoke, of course the 'majority' is going to be for taxing the smokers. This keeps the hands of the lawmakers out of THEIR pockets. I've never seen it fail that when it comes to taxes and polls, we lose every time.
Good to see you too!!! :)
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posted on
09/21/2005 2:14:12 PM PDT
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: Gay State Conservative; SheLion; Gabz
I'm a Massachusetts smoker and I don't know one smoker here in The Gay State that buys their cigs in Massachusetts anymore.
Of course the idiot politicians say smoking rates are down when it is just smoking purchases that are down.
Morons.
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posted on
09/21/2005 2:31:12 PM PDT
by
Mears
(The Killer Queen)
To: 556x45
Philbrick's,which is a store in NH,actually advertises on Mass radio to shop in tax-free NH.
Their ad says, "Make it in Massachusetts,spend it in New Hampshire".
Don't ya love it?
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posted on
09/21/2005 2:34:47 PM PDT
by
Mears
(The Killer Queen)
To: Mears
Of course the idiot politicians say smoking rates are down when it is just smoking purchases that are down. Of course! The cigarette tax revenue goes down, so the lawmakers say that everyone must have quit smoking. LOL!!!
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posted on
09/21/2005 2:49:47 PM PDT
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
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