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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: Past Your Eyes
also heard that all of the major credit card companies (in an agreement with ATF) will no longer pay websites that sell cigs across state lines........suggest finding a truck driver friend who passes through Kentucky
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posted on
09/20/2005 4:58:17 PM PDT
by
shooter223
(the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
To: Past Your Eyes
...bags of loose rolling tobacco as a sideline to its main products, cigars and pipe products.Ever since Taft raised the tax here in Ohio on cigarettes by $0.75, I've been bying loose tobbaco, cigarette tubes and a cheap, but easy to use, tube stuffer. I used to lay out $7.48 per day now it costs me $0.92 per day.
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:00:00 PM PDT
by
Rudder
To: patton
Actually, I don't live free. I figure I'll die instead.
But at least I know how to spell cemetery.
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:01:11 PM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(I'm just sitting here on the Group W bench.)
To: Past Your Eyes
The increase is one of the latest in an extensive series of steps the state has taken to discourage smokingNo ... it's the latest step in an effort to increase TAXES.
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:06:03 PM PDT
by
layman
(Card Carrying Infidel)
To: 556x45
None of what you've said surprises me.Here in the People's
Republic the two most heinous crimes are:not paying "your fair share" and "hatred and intolerance". And as for collecting taxes on out of state purchases,the Mass income tax return contains a question requiring you to declare how much you've purchased without paying Mass sales tax and then you're assessed 5% of that figure.
Also,Mass State Police have been known to hang out in parking lots of NH fireworks stores before July 4th and following cars with Mass plates back into Mass and then stopping them (fireworks are illegal here).
To: Gay State Conservative
They don't want anybody to have any fun do they?
Unless the state (guess I should say Commonwealth) gets a nice cut out of it.
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:11:53 PM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(I'm just sitting here on the Group W bench.)
To: shooter223
suggest finding a truck driver friend who passes through Kentucky. Earlier this year,I drove down the East Coast (I-95) to Florida.I was really surprised to see that cigarettes in VA and the Carolinas are at least $3 a pack cheaper than in the northeastern People's Republics.
It almost made me wish that I smoked.
To: Past Your Eyes
"tax to $2 that just took effect"
LOL.. In 1970 a pack of smokes cost 24 cents.
A gallon of gas cost 29 cents...
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:15:06 PM PDT
by
AMERIKA
To: Gay State Conservative
LOL...they pulled that naughty trick at the NH liquor stores and wound up getting arrested by the NH state police. Oh, they were SO mad...but I must say they deserved it richly. The MA state police threatened, postured and complained publicly. It's was quite the show and entertaining too.
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:16:17 PM PDT
by
556x45
To: Past Your Eyes
guess I should say Commonwealth "Commonwealth" is the Massachusetts Power Structure's way of saying to working folks "what's yours is ours".
To: Past Your Eyes
Well, that's what you get you mindless sheep of Maine that keep putting these morons into office.
One word for them: TOUGH!
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:19:18 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(I've totally given up on the possibility any politicians can govern....left or right or middle.)
To: Past Your Eyes
I've been around a very long time, and used to "roll my own" when money got short. Smoking was accepted, and even celebrated during and after WWII. In the movies of those days the most sophisticated stars smoked in most of their scenes.
I quit smoking for personal reasons on April 19, 2001, but have never, and will never, complain about another person's right to smoke.
Public health problems, such as sodomy, are politically accepted, and even celebrated by the leftists in this country. After all, votes are accepted, no matter where they come from.
The simple political truth is this. The behavior that votes for me is acceptable.
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:19:29 PM PDT
by
billhilly
(If you're lurking here from DU (Democrats unglued), I trust this post will make you sick)
To: Past Your Eyes
My wife and fell in love with Conway on our NE trip many years ago. We changed many plans to be able to stay a couple of days longer.
We then went back just to visit there for a week a few years later.
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:20:22 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(I've totally given up on the possibility any politicians can govern....left or right or middle.)
To: AlaskaErik
lets see.......income tax(state&fed sometimes local)...FICA... estate tax...property tax...gasoline tax(state&fed)...liquor tax(state&fed)...tobacco tax(state&fed)...sales tax.......... taxes that are called something else......driver's license... license plates®istration...business license...hunting fishing license...firearms registration&permits.......a partial list at best off the top of my head........where are Franklin,Jefferson,Washington and friends when we need them?
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:20:59 PM PDT
by
shooter223
(the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
To: Fledermaus
My wife and fell in love with Conway Hmmm. Just out of curiosity, what was it that you liked about the place? I'm not overly fond of it myself. Too damm many people and congested as he11. It is nice over on the West Side Road and, of course, the scenery is spectacular in places. But that's true of much of NH.
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:30:11 PM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(I'm just sitting here on the Group W bench.)
To: Past Your Eyes
...and when my misspelling goes best seller, you remind me of that, OK?
LOL. It is a signiture.
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:32:44 PM PDT
by
patton
("Hard Drive Cemetary" - forthcoming best seller)
To: patton
LOL yourself! I also know how to spell signature. Do you need an editor?
";^)
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:39:33 PM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(I'm just sitting here on the Group W bench.)
To: Past Your Eyes
I guess being a tourist and not a resident! lol
We had a great time there and the surrounding area. We loved to dine at the 1785 Inn.
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:39:57 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(I've totally given up on the possibility any politicians can govern....left or right or middle.)
To: Past Your Eyes
Yes, I do - you volunteering?
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:41:41 PM PDT
by
patton
("Hard Drive Cemetary" - forthcoming best seller)
To: Fledermaus
I live about 8 miles south of the other (west) end of the Kancamagus Highway. Only go to Conway on business, which is about once a week.
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:45:01 PM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(I'm just sitting here on the Group W bench.)
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