To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...
Officials in a county in central China have been told to smoke nearly a quarter million packs of locally made cigarettes annually or risk being fined... 230,000 packs... Departments that fail to meet their targets will be fined...
Planned economies always look so unplanned, it's almost as if the underlying rules haven't changed at all... ;')
2 posted on
05/04/2009 10:51:06 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
"The regulation will boost the local economy via the cigarette tax," said Chen Nianzu, a member of the Gong'an cigarette market supervision team" Why haven't we thought of this?
3 posted on
05/04/2009 10:53:39 AM PDT by
T Minus Four
(Matthew 15:8 - 9)
To: Daffynition
Methinks some editor got punk’d but good.
4 posted on
05/04/2009 11:58:14 AM PDT by
Slings and Arrows
(Israel is built on rock. Arabia is built on sand.)
To: JoeProBono
Did you lie to me?
6 posted on
05/04/2009 3:52:32 PM PDT by
Daffynition
("If any of you die, can I please have your ammo?" ~ Gator113)
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