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TAX HIKE SLOWS CIG SALES
New York Post ^
| January 17, 2003
| Kenneth Lovett
Posted on 01/17/2003 1:42:45 AM PST by sarcasm
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:11:14 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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ALBANY - Legal cigarette sales in New York appear to have slowed significantly since the state and city boosted taxes on tobacco, a report yesterday showed. The state's cigarette tax last April jumped 35 percent, to $1.50, while the city's tax - of which the state takes half - also rose to $1.50, up from 8 cents.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: pufflist
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posted on
01/17/2003 1:42:45 AM PST
by
sarcasm
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posted on
01/17/2003 1:44:12 AM PST
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To: sarcasm
That's cause they're all buying them on the internet at Indian reservations! ROFL!!
To: *puff_list
To: blondee123
That's cause they're all buying them on the internet at Indian reservations!And other sources.
A story posted the other day described how drug dealers were now entering the bootleg cigarette market, because the profits are high and the penalties low.
Which makes sense, since selling 10 to 20 cartons per day at the streetcorner (what's that, an hour of work?) could easily produce $200 to $500 in cash profits.
Soon there will be gangland turf battles over black market smokes in NYC, and the NYPD will be diverted from sales of crack, ganja, and heroin in Washington Square and Harlem, to the "war on tobacco."
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posted on
01/17/2003 3:42:31 AM PST
by
angkor
To: sarcasm
And the states blood money will decrease a lot more before all is said and done.
To: sarcasm
supply and demand curves...My college Econ Prof was right!
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posted on
01/17/2003 9:52:20 AM PST
by
CPT Clay
To: sarcasm; Max McGarrity
These people never learn that people will buy their tobacco elsewhere when taxes reach the point of misery.
To: Fred Mertz
I call it the 'Duh!' factor. So the next step is to try to stem the tide by making it illegal to 'avoid' the outrageous taxes, then adding more law enforcement types to arrest the scofflaws, then like North Dakota, proposing complete prohibition...as if that will do anything but make criminals out of honest men.
Time for another Revolution!
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posted on
01/17/2003 12:52:53 PM PST
by
Max McGarrity
(Anti-smokers--still the bullies in the playground they always were.)
To: Just another Joe; Gabz; metesky
Hey! You guys notice at the end of this article?
WASTE WATCH
Help save the city budget! If you are aware of waste, fraud or mismanagement anywhere in city government, let The Post know. Send an email with details about the problem to
govwaste@nypost.com
Seems to me Bloominidiot should be right at the top of the list of "waste, fraud or mismanagement." Think I might just have to drop the Post a note explaining why.
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posted on
01/17/2003 12:56:05 PM PST
by
Max McGarrity
(Anti-smokers--still the bullies in the playground they always were.)
To: sarcasm
Legal cigarette sales in New York appear to have slowed significantly since the state and city boosted taxes on tobacco, a report yesterday showed.At least they got the wording halfway correct.
Is it ILLEGAL to buy cigarettes from the reservations and not declare taxes. I think you're SUPPOSED to declare from sales over the internet but who's really going to?
To: angkor
Of course there will be gang wars over selling cigarettes, the government has all but made them illegal!
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