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To: SheLion; Gabz; Just another Joe; Conspiracy Guy
High taxation used as a tool to modify behavior funding Terrorism!
Headline correction ping!
2 posted on
06/08/2004 5:07:42 AM PDT by
CSM
(Liberals may see Saddam's mass graves in Iraq as half-full, but I prefer to see them as half-empty.)
To: general_re
Media's spin: When you smoke a cigarette, you promote terrorism
3 posted on
06/08/2004 5:10:27 AM PDT by
GulliverSwift
(Put Reagan on the $20 bill!)
To: general_re
Smoking Cigarettes Supports Terrorists
Women, Minorities Hurt Most
4 posted on
06/08/2004 5:10:36 AM PDT by
theDentist
(John Kerry never saw a TAX he wouldn't HIKE !!!)
To: general_re
"...including several with terrorist links...up from only a handful five years ago..."
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I need to put this in my handy list of weights and measures.
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Several > Handfull
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To: general_re
"The deeper we dig into these cases, the more ties to terrorism we're discovering."
Hmmmmm. Looks like this is an attempt to justify government power-grabs like the Patriot Act.
If they really want to crack down on black market tobacco, why don't they try cutting taxes? That's the only reason there's a black market in the first place.
8 posted on
06/08/2004 5:28:54 AM PDT by
sheltonmac
("Duty is ours; consequences are God's." -Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson)
To: general_re
Anyone who thinks the mob is going to let terrorists take over this rather lucrative enterprise needs to have their head examined. Do they really expect us to believe that terrorists are getting funding from moving smokes from low tax to high tax states? They think we're morons you know.
12 posted on
06/08/2004 5:42:41 AM PDT by
zeugma
(The Great Experiment is over.)
To: general_re
serious ties with this in Buffalo.
Remember the lackawana 6
14 posted on
06/08/2004 5:48:08 AM PDT by
The Mayor
(A true friend will put a finger on your faults without rubbing them in.)
To: general_re
This is getting to be like "everything gives you cancer". Pretty soon downloading music from kazaa will be supporting terrorism.
15 posted on
06/08/2004 5:52:52 AM PDT by
BSunday
(RIP Mr. Reagan, we love you.)
To: general_re
Cigarette Smuggling Linked to Terrorism
Government Greed in the Form of Tobacco Taxes Linked to Terrorism
16 posted on
06/08/2004 5:53:31 AM PDT by
aruanan
To: general_re
Profiling mulsims between the ages of 18 and 40 might be a tad easier on Americans
17 posted on
06/08/2004 5:59:30 AM PDT by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: general_re
Profiling mulsims between the ages of 18 and 40 might be a tad easier on Americans
19 posted on
06/08/2004 5:59:40 AM PDT by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: general_re
This isn't the first time it's been said. It won't be the last time.
You can get a lot of prison time for importing marijuana, heroin, meth, and the like.
There are not very severe penalties for moving cigarettes from one state to another.
When the price is outrageous in one place ($7.50 in NY City) and reasonable in another place ($3.00 near KC, MO in some places), the penalty for doing so light, and the profit to be made really very good, what does the government expect?
Entrepreneurs will pop up anywhere there is a buck to be made with light penalties.
Weren't a couple of the founding fathers involved in some type of smuggling?
24 posted on
06/08/2004 6:08:00 AM PDT by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: general_re
I've got an idea. Let's kill this terrorist bonanza by cutting cigarette taxes!
I doubt such a proposal would fly though. Too many politicians and lawyers are now less addicted to tobacco and more addicted to it's money stream. They find it impossible to quit.
25 posted on
06/08/2004 6:10:28 AM PDT by
Gritty
("Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem"-Ronald Reagan)
To: general_re
The real terrorist is the parent that smokes in enclosed spaces with their child.
To: general_re
Well if the Federal Bureau of FATE says so, it must be true.
30 posted on
06/08/2004 6:41:33 AM PDT by
Oztrich Boy
("Despise not the jester. Often he is the only one speaking the truth")
To: general_re
Boy, I gotta tell you. (sarcasm)No one saw this coming did they...(/sarcasm)
Effing morons. What the hell did they think was gonna happen?
33 posted on
06/08/2004 6:54:57 AM PDT by
Dead Corpse
(For an Evil Super Genius, you aren't too bright are you?)
To: general_re
First of all, there is no terrorism...according to the democRATS anyway.
Secondly, what did those states expect when they taxed a pack of cigarettes up to $10 a pack in some places?
Either stop this silly smoking ban nonsense, or reap the consequences of the black market. Didn't prohibition teach our "illustrious" leaders ANYTHING?
Smokers will not be promoting terrorism, the PC boneheads who are playing "nanny state" are promoting it.
Looks like the only thing left is to make ALL TOBACCO PRODUCTS ILLEGAL. Just ban them outright, now. Come on libs, you've got the perfect excuse right now...do it.
Then after that, go ahead and ban fast food. You'll be needing a new "public health hazard" to wring your collective hands over, and you can just tax the sh*t out of fast food. Oh, but then...then, won't the terrorists start selling black market hamburgers? Then, outlaw them too.
Once tobacco and fast food are out of the way,liberals can ban all other products that:
a) People enjoy;
b) Makes People smile;
c) Doesn't already generate a sin tax;
d) Someone else has that the libs don't have.
These laws go back to the same basic principle of human nature that "smoking and kids" does...you tell them they "can't", and they will do it, or die trying.
39 posted on
06/08/2004 7:24:29 AM PDT by
FrankR
To: general_re
For the past several (10 or so) years, many areas, like mine in the Midwest, probably have noticed an influx of "cheap cigarette" stores to their local strip malls. Usually owned and staffed by middle eastern persons, these have been known to front "halal"(sp?) or money-laundering type operations with ties to terrorism, where they can use a cash payment method which cannot be traced. This info coming from an ATF friend.
42 posted on
06/08/2004 7:59:56 AM PDT by
soozla
(BUSH/CHENEY '04)
To: general_re
Cigarette Smuggling Linked to Terrorism
What utter nonsense. Another bureaucratic power grab in the name of the WOT.
To: general_re
The traffickers purchase a large volume of cigarettes in states where the tax is low, such as Virginia and North Carolina, transport them up Interstate 95 to states such as Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey Sounds like VA and NC are laughing all the way to the bank at the expense of MD, NY, PA & NJ. I've heard folks suggest VA and NC might want to raise their taxes, I think maybe not.
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