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State cracks down on cigarette prices
Boston Globe ^ | October 18, 2003 | Bruce Mohl

Posted on 10/18/2003 3:45:20 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:10:54 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Massachusetts is starting to enforce a 60-year-old minimum pricing law for cigarettes, sending out Revenue Department officials to about 30 retailers to make sure they raise their prices to comply with the state law.

A department spokesman said one of the retailers had to increase his price on a pack of Marlboros by more than 90 cents.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: cigarettes; pufflist; revenue; sintax; tobacco
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Cigarette revenues must be off. I wonder why.
1 posted on 10/18/2003 3:45:21 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
"I wonder why. "

hehe.. le market nior

2 posted on 10/18/2003 3:52:12 AM PDT by evad (liberals & lying..It's WHAT they do, it's ALL they do and they WON'T stop...EVER!!)
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To: evad
Their taxing little hearts are being pinched. Here comes fat tax, SUV tax, etc, etc, etc to take up the slack.
3 posted on 10/18/2003 3:54:45 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
They don't call this the People's Democratic Republic of Taxxachusetts for nothing.
4 posted on 10/18/2003 3:58:32 AM PDT by agitator (Ok, mic check...line one...)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Sounds like the state wants an easy way to estimate their tax take. Different prices all over are too hard for them to figure out.
5 posted on 10/18/2003 3:59:49 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult ("Read Hillary's hips. I never had sex with that woman.")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
There's trouble on the street tonight
I can feel it in my bones
I had a premonition
That he should not go alone
I knew the gun was loaded
But I didn't think he'd kill
Ev'rything exploded and the
Blood began to spill
So baby here's your ticket
Put the suitcase in your hand
Here's a little money now
Do it just the way we planned
You be cool for twenty hours
And I'll pay you twenty grand
I'm sorry it went down like this
Someone had to lose
It's the nature of the bus'ness
It's the smuggler's blues
6 posted on 10/18/2003 4:02:07 AM PDT by G.Mason (Lessons of life need not be fatal)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
a state law barring the sale of milk below cost

Evil milk....

7 posted on 10/18/2003 4:10:14 AM PDT by Drango (What's mine is mine: And what's yours is yours: And what's mine is not yours.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Oklahoma had a similar law through the 1980's. It was a "minimum price" law whose purpose was to keep Mom-n-Pop shops from being run out of business by corporations. The law hurt Walmart's entry into Oklahoma in the late 70's and early 80's because Walmart had to raise their normal prices above their other-state store prices.

8 posted on 10/18/2003 4:18:41 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Drango
"a state law barring the sale of milk below cost

Evil milk."


...What this country needs is a good milk boot legger. Where's Al Cowpone when you need him?
9 posted on 10/18/2003 4:21:03 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Anti-tobacco liberals want to price cigarettes out of the reach of people. Of course, it merely ends up hurting the poor. Too bad, so sad.
10 posted on 10/18/2003 4:23:00 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: Graybeard58
I just hit the abuse button on you.
11 posted on 10/18/2003 4:23:56 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: AppyPappy
Of course, it merely ends up hurting the poor. Too bad, so sad.

But the evil corporations, built on the back of slave labor are still profiting. Excessive taxation? It ain't no stinkin' taxes that are hurting the poor it's BIG tobacco.

12 posted on 10/18/2003 4:34:40 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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/sarcasm
13 posted on 10/18/2003 4:35:01 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; *puff_list; Just another Joe; Great Dane; Max McGarrity; Tumbleweed_Connection; ..
Roll Your Own. Then you don't HAVE to pay into the state coffers any longer!


and

Smokers United


14 posted on 10/18/2003 4:46:52 AM PDT by SheLion (Curiosity killed the cat BUT satisfaction brought her back!!!)
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Paul Harvey did a bit on how rolled cigarettes in prison are more profitable than illegal drugs. I don't remember the exact numbers he gave but it was in the tens of thousands of dollars for converting a small amount of tobacco into rolled smokes.
15 posted on 10/18/2003 5:06:05 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: agitator
They don't call this the People's Democratic Republic of Taxxachusetts for nothing.

Now let's be fair about this. Sure the taxes are high but look at all the benenfits the people of the state get. Let me point out one shining example....The Big Dig. I know it's not finished yet, but it will be in 2005, maybe. And, so far it's only cost 14.7 BILLION. Look at it this way, for what they'be paid for a usless hole in the ground, one could almost rebuild Afghanistan and Iraq.

16 posted on 10/18/2003 5:12:08 AM PDT by tbpiper
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Paul Harvey did a bit on how rolled cigarettes in prison are more profitable than illegal drugs. I don't remember the exact numbers he gave but it was in the tens of thousands of dollars for converting a small amount of tobacco into rolled smokes.

I don't know about that one. I just know that compared to $45-$50 for one carton of cigarettes, I can roll a carton for $8.00. The savings is mind boggling.

And it's a snap with this machine and the filtered tubes.

17 posted on 10/18/2003 5:26:03 AM PDT by SheLion (Curiosity killed the cat BUT satisfaction brought her back!!!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Where are we, the Soviet Union?
18 posted on 10/18/2003 5:29:41 AM PDT by Guillermo ( Proud Infidel)
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To: agitator
Yeah, but the morons who live there continue to vote for the same old politicians and the same old crap.
19 posted on 10/18/2003 5:30:46 AM PDT by Guillermo ( Proud Infidel)
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To: Guillermo
Yeah, but the morons who live there continue to vote for the same old politicians and the same old crap.

Exactly!


20 posted on 10/18/2003 5:33:28 AM PDT by SheLion (Curiosity killed the cat BUT satisfaction brought her back!!!)
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