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Freep the Cigarette Tax Poll
WKSU.org ^
| 7/16/06
Posted on 07/16/2006 8:22:37 AM PDT by Pontiac
Cuyahoga County residents will be asked this November to approve a 30-cents-per-pack increase on cigarettes to help fund arts and cultural organizations. Do you support the proposal?
Yes 50%
No 50%
TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: freep; pufflist; smoking; taxes; tobacco
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Freep this poll. Another fine example financing the liberal left money spenders with a sin tax.
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:22:38 AM PDT
by
Pontiac
To: Pontiac
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:25:14 AM PDT
by
proudofthesouth
(Mao said that power comes at the point of a rifle; I say FREEDOM does.)
To: Pontiac
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:28:12 AM PDT
by
camas
To: Pontiac
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:28:40 AM PDT
by
camas
To: Pontiac
Only if I can smoke in the music hall and museum. Then, it's OK. [grin]
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:31:24 AM PDT
by
MineralMan
(non-evangelical atheist)
To: camas
I think Cleveland has all the culture it can manage right now...
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Well it has the Indians, Browns, Cavs and the Rock and Roll hall of Fame.
If you consider that culture?
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:38:14 AM PDT
by
Pontiac
(All are worthy of freedom, none are incapable.)
To: Pontiac
IF they want to ban this legal substance...just don't tax it into submission. Get the people behind making it an illegal substance...or leave it and the people who use it alone.
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:40:16 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein(the moon is a harsh mistress))
To: Pontiac
Freepd and now it's at 84% vs 16% I think..LOL
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:40:57 AM PDT
by
Cinnamon
To: Pontiac
This is the continuation of the same of "tax the crap out 'em" syndrome of the Left....
Now, rather than admit it is another "tax" to redistribute wealth and assign it to whatever Liberal-cause-dujour is decided my the Liberal Elite, we have lawsuits like the Big Tobacco Suit, suits for "discrimination", the "Reparations for slavery" issue, along with the soon-to-come "Fat Tax" on fast foods, to effectively tax the populace (consumers), while appealing as a non-tax to some select groups.
Evidently, with the lack of intelligence in the Democrat-voter base, they think somehow we're gonna "get those rich bastards and BIG BUSINESS" or "the rich", to appropriate their money for OUR benefit is the mantra that has enough voting power to pass this crap.
Erosion of individual responsibility and dependence upon the Socialist State is being passed off on fools who see the Government as the only way to get something for nothing, funded by OTHERS.
Working for a living does not enter into the thought process of the entitlements crowd....
To: Pontiac
Well, for Cleveland . . .
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:42:24 AM PDT
by
NaughtiusMaximus
(Having a Kerry/Edwards bumpersticker on your car is like having "Born Loozer" tatooed on your arm.)
To: Vaquero
IF they want to ban this legal substance...just don't tax it into submission. As Rush has said on many occasions making tobacco illegal is the last thing they want to do.
Why kill the Golden Goose.
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:47:16 AM PDT
by
Pontiac
(All are worthy of freedom, none are incapable.)
To: SheLion; Gabz; Mears
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:48:50 AM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: traditional1
Working for a living does not enter into the thought process of the entitlements crowd.... They make huge noises about wanting to make taxes fair by making income taxes more progressive, making the rich pay more.
Then when they have the poor paying next to nothing they come along and propose taxes like these that are as regressive as they come.
Sin taxes always will hit the poor hardest of any tax because the rich don’t sin anymore than the poor (probably considerable less).
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:51:44 AM PDT
by
Pontiac
(All are worthy of freedom, none are incapable.)
To: Pontiac
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:54:37 AM PDT
by
olezip
To: Pontiac; Just another Joe; CSM; lockjaw02; Publius6961; elkfersupper; nopardons; metesky; Mears; ...
Sin tax for the Nanny State Ping..........
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:57:29 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(Taxaholism, the disease you elect to have (TY xcamel))
To: olezip
I get the feeling that the left isn't paying much attention to this site.
But that's OK we can mess with the WKSU web master anyway.
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:58:34 AM PDT
by
Pontiac
(All are worthy of freedom, none are incapable.)
To: Gabz
What does TY xcamel mean?
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posted on
07/16/2006 9:00:15 AM PDT
by
Pontiac
(All are worthy of freedom, none are incapable.)
Yes 9.33%
No 90.67%
Heh-heh!
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posted on
07/16/2006 9:03:22 AM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: Pontiac
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posted on
07/16/2006 9:03:24 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
(Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)
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