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Push on to raise Maryland cigarette tax to $3 a pack
The Washington Times ^ | October 6, 2011 | David Hill

Posted on 10/07/2011 8:34:01 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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1 posted on 10/07/2011 8:34:07 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Eric Blair 2084; SheLion; Gabz; Hank Kerchief; 383rr; libertarian27; traviskicks; bamahead; CSM; ...

Nanny State PING!


2 posted on 10/07/2011 8:35:01 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (It's the Tea Party's fault!)
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Awesome.....more money for Virginia.


3 posted on 10/07/2011 8:35:33 PM PDT by Wage Slave (Army Mom!)
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Maryland “Freak State” PING!


4 posted on 10/07/2011 8:37:32 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (It's the Tea Party's fault!)
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They should make it ‘cool’ 20.


5 posted on 10/07/2011 8:40:11 PM PDT by allmost
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“Many smokers appreciate increases in the tobacco tax to help them quit.”

True dat.

6 posted on 10/07/2011 8:40:22 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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It is inevitable that we will someday read about no knock BATF raids on clandestine hydroponic Kentucky burley grow operations under high pressure sodium vapor lights. and mexicans growing it on federal lands and state parks.
7 posted on 10/07/2011 8:47:20 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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There is a bud of mine who regularly drives to Virginia and the Carolinas. He's going to be happy to haul bootleg cigarettes only as far as Maryland now rather than having to drive all the way to Pennsylvania.

He tells me there is a great market for this kind of thing. You can easily fit enough packs in your car trunk to pay for a trip to Myrtle Beach and back plus a little extra. If you know where to go, the chances of being detected are almost nil. My bud has offered to help set me up with the proper introductions, but so far I've resisted the temptation.

8 posted on 10/07/2011 8:48:43 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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Vince should just make cigarettes and other tobacco items illegal. Oops, that wouldn’t suit his agenda.


9 posted on 10/07/2011 8:50:07 PM PDT by Rembrandt (.. AND the donkey you rode in on.)
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What no “It is for the children” pitch?


10 posted on 10/07/2011 8:50:18 PM PDT by razorback-bert (Some days it's not worth chewing through the straps.)
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If $3 is better wouldn’t $30 be better still?


11 posted on 10/07/2011 8:51:34 PM PDT by null and void (Day 989 of America's holiday from reality...)
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Ah yes, you’ve got to love the Political mind - tax them and we will get rich. Unfortunately, the taxed seem to find ways around them at every turn. (Love the stop light cameras - don’t you? - they bring in so much revenue)...

It comes down to government sucks at attempting to raise taxes via sin taxes or tolls or just about anything else that the taxee’s (made up term) have control over.

These folks are smart enough to find ways around these silly government taxes and eventually, the return is less than they had before taxes were raised. Will they never learn!


12 posted on 10/07/2011 8:55:07 PM PDT by Deagle
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I don’t know how people can continue to smoke now days. I quit when it passed the $1 barrier. Now here in Washington a pack of name brands will cost you between 7 and 9 dollars a pack.


13 posted on 10/07/2011 8:55:10 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
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Ah, little do you know grasshopper! There are ways...


14 posted on 10/07/2011 8:57:10 PM PDT by Deagle
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Yes there are :>)


15 posted on 10/07/2011 9:00:35 PM PDT by libertarian27 (Agenda21: Dept. of Life, Dept. of Liberty and the Dept. of Happiness)
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If tobacco is so bad, outlaw it and hand it over to the DEA.

They've done such a good job with all the other contraband substances.

16 posted on 10/07/2011 9:03:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them." --Ronald Reagan)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Go for it. Anyone stupid enough to smoke and live in Maryland also, deserves to be punished. Deal with it.
18 posted on 10/07/2011 9:11:49 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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Sounds like someone who owns some smoke shops in Northern Virginia has been whispering in the right ears. Maryland is small enough to drive across state lines to pickup smokes.


19 posted on 10/07/2011 9:15:21 PM PDT by ClayinVA ("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
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“Many smokers appreciate increases in the tobacco tax to help them quit.”

...the state.


20 posted on 10/07/2011 9:31:06 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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