Posted on 04/20/2017 5:07:21 AM PDT by kevcol
Exchange the word “bread” for cigarettes and you see just how communist this bragging is.
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.
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.
There is enough money in it that organized crime is involved.
And they killed him?
I'm searching with bing now.
Plus 8.875% sales tax.
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.
http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/eric-garner/
This is true, unreal.
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.
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.
It's ok to smoke drugs...but get caught with a cheap cigarette and you'll get your ass shot off..!
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.
I wonder what he’ll raise taxes on after he has effectively put an end to smoking in his city?
Eric Garner was publicly executed for doing just that.
Nothing more than legal prohibition.
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