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De Blasio Brags About New York Cigarette Price Floor Being Raised To ‘Highest Price In The Country’
Washington Free Beacon ^ | April 19, 2017 | Charles Fain Lehman

Posted on 04/20/2017 5:07:21 AM PDT by kevcol

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday that cigarette prices in the city would go up $2.50 to $13 which, de Blasio bragged, would be "the highest price in the country."
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Council Member Fernando Cabrera, who introduced the bill to create the licensing requirement for e-cigarette retailers, described the proposal as "a major step to limit the use of e-cigarettes, which are dangerous nicotine delivery systems that can lead to nicotine and potentially drug addiction."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bigbrother; cigarettes; deblasio; ecigarettes; nannystate; nyc; sodatax; taxandspend; taxes; vaping
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To: kevcol

Exchange the word “bread” for cigarettes and you see just how communist this bragging is.


21 posted on 04/20/2017 5:29:41 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: FatherofFive
At $13 a pack, that is $4,725 per year for a pack a day smoker. A part time job just to fund smoking. Glad I never started that habit.

A carton/week for 30 years, I finally quit cold turkey in 2015, --the year that more Americans quit smoking than ever before.

Americans are dropping the habit of cigarettes at record paces. Look around. You hardly ever see people smoking in public anymore. It wasn't long ago that you could always find a few people puffing away outside restaurants and storefront entrances. These days I rarely see this.

The decades-long campaign to ostracize smokers has worked. I'd imagine the rate of smoking among college-educated professionals is practically zero. Today, smoking is almost entirely a habit relegated to the poor and blue collar working class. And these are the people shouldering the burden of the $13 pack of cigarettes needed to fund the various programs that have come to depend on tobacco taxes.

22 posted on 04/20/2017 5:30:08 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: AppyPappy

Sorry, i was Home Schooled because my parents love me to much to send me to a kiddie kennel, so I have no idea what you are saying.


23 posted on 04/20/2017 5:31:40 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (politicians beware)
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To: sickoflibs

There is enough money in it that organized crime is involved.


24 posted on 04/20/2017 5:32:00 AM PDT by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: miss marmelstein
That guy in NYC - I forget his name and forget which borough. A big fat guy who was wrestled to the ground for resisting arrest. He was selling loosies.

And they killed him?

I'm searching with bing now.

25 posted on 04/20/2017 5:33:03 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (politicians beware)
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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine

You missed the riots

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Eric_Garner


26 posted on 04/20/2017 5:33:08 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine

Plus 8.875% sales tax.


27 posted on 04/20/2017 5:34:32 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine

Cops jumped a black guy selling loosies at a buck a piece; took him down and the guy was unable to breathe with all those cops on him. He died. For a lousy buck.


28 posted on 04/20/2017 5:35:05 AM PDT by SkyDancer (The 3 most common expressions in aviation are, 'Why is it doing that?, 'Where are we?' and 'Oh Crap')
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To: miss marmelstein
WOW,

http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/eric-garner/

This is true, unreal.

29 posted on 04/20/2017 5:36:36 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (politicians beware)
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To: central_va
Ya, but getting caught can get you murdered.

http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/eric-garner/

30 posted on 04/20/2017 5:37:26 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (politicians beware)
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To: xzins
Grow your own.

In 2008, I tried growing my own. I also ordered an e-cigarette just in case the plants didn't grow.
The plants grew to almost a foot high when the e-cig arrived on the slow boat from China.
After the first puff from that e-cig, I quit smoking after thirty years, and gave up on growing tobacco.

I still love the scent of burning tobacco, though.
Growing it is the easy part. The leaves must still be processed. Dried, cured and cut.
31 posted on 04/20/2017 5:39:24 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Vote for your guns!)
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To: kevcol
Says Wikipedia:

The combined federal, state, county, and local tax on a pack of twenty cigarettes in the city of Chicago, in Cook County, Illinois, is $7.42, the highest in the entire country. The lowest rate in the nation is in Missouri, at 17 cents, where the state's electorate voted to keep it that way in 2002, 2006, and 2012.

Imagine buying cigarettes in Missouri and selling them in neighboring Illinois.

32 posted on 04/20/2017 5:40:51 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: RandallFlagg

The tobacco companies dosed their curing recipe with all kinds of chemicals.

The home grower can simply dry and pipe smoke, or they can use some old home methods.


33 posted on 04/20/2017 5:45:01 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory.)
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To: kevcol
The crazy world of the left.....

It's ok to smoke drugs...but get caught with a cheap cigarette and you'll get your ass shot off..!

34 posted on 04/20/2017 5:47:24 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: sickoflibs

Back in the ‘60’s Florida had a cigarette tax. It couldn’t have been much. I had a neighbor whose dad would regularly take the family beat-to-death LTD to Virginia and fill it with cigarettes bought over the counter. He resold them in Tampa. Apparently, it doesn’t take much tax to make this a profitable thing to do.

What probably isn’t in the article is the projected tax revenue drop because of the added tax. Liberals always take the amount collected now and plus-it-up with the new percentage but that never works in real dollars as people find ways around the tax. Whatever the tax is, the optimum tax income is always when the tax amount is low enough that it is not worth the effort to find ways around the tax.

But the worst, most corrupting element of the tax is forcing addicted people who generally obey the law to find ways around it. Prohibition, for example, made millions of Americans into criminals. For many of those people, now that they have crossed the line and not gotten caught, they look around with contempt at the other laws and start to choose which ones they want to obey.


35 posted on 04/20/2017 5:50:46 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: dp0622
Hey, coming up from North Carolina this week end.....I'll have lots of cigs for sale......only $9.00 per carton....see you soon.
36 posted on 04/20/2017 5:51:38 AM PDT by mastertex
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To: kevcol

I wonder what he’ll raise taxes on after he has effectively put an end to smoking in his city?


37 posted on 04/20/2017 5:52:53 AM PDT by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine

Eric Garner was publicly executed for doing just that.


38 posted on 04/20/2017 5:53:23 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (TETELESTI Read em and weep Lucy! Yer times almost up.)
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To: kevcol
Fugetaboutit. We'll get it to ya half price


39 posted on 04/20/2017 5:53:25 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: kevcol

Nothing more than legal prohibition.


40 posted on 04/20/2017 5:56:11 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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