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Veto threat looms over insurance measure [a 61-cent-a-pack increase in the tax on cigarettes..]
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Posted on 07/18/2007 11:09:52 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

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To: Gabz
There WILL be? It's been happening for years.

I see you live in VA. My wife is a chain smoker. Let me know where you can buy these blackmarket cigarettes.

41 posted on 07/18/2007 8:26:53 PM PDT by kabar
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I have no idea where to buy black market cigs. We make our own for less than $7 a carton. It’s perfectly legal and we pay all applicable taxes. And we tarted doing it long before we moved to Virginia.


42 posted on 07/18/2007 8:34:15 PM PDT by Gabz (Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
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To: Hot Tabasco; Gabz

A 72 year old friend of mine here in Massachusetts just received a bill for $2500.00 for back taxes for cigs ordered on-line.

Roughly 1/2 of the bill is for interest and penalties.

Madness !!!!


43 posted on 07/18/2007 9:20:32 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Sub-Driver

I feel like I’m in the Soviet Union during maybe the early 80’s. Starting to get more things on the black market, as the taxes, regulation, legal costs etc of products on the open market are spiraling out of control.. and invested most of my money out of the country a few years back, to get higher returns:).


44 posted on 07/18/2007 9:34:35 PM PDT by ran20
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On Friday, a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the Senate signaled their support for a $35 billion increase

Just who the hell is in this "bipartisan group"?
45 posted on 07/18/2007 9:51:04 PM PDT by George W. Bush (Rudy: tough on terror, scared of Iowa)
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