WOW! Thank you for the information and the informative link!
We know we are already getting screwed. I pay more for car insurance than a non-smoking drinker who has had no DUIs and I don't drink. There is no way any of this is equitable.
That said, there is no way charging say...2.40 a pack state tax (like NJ) is going to make it any more fair, and if the taxes were equalized, you can bet your last butt in the pack that they would all normalize around the current maximum. (What legislature could resist the windfall?--the antis would be screaming for it in the streets!)
That said, there is no way charging say...2.40 a pack state tax (like NJ) is going to make it any more fair, and if the taxes were equalized, you can bet your last butt in the pack that they would all normalize around the current maximum. (What legislature could resist the windfall?--the antis would be screaming for it in the streets!)I'm glad you can use the link!! Bookmark it. :)
Well, our glutton lawmakers need to hear from us. We are sick and tired of being blamed for everything because we smoke and we are sick and tired of carrying the state budgets on our backs. It has to end.
Black market? Terrorists? Well, if each state would treat their constituents fair that smoke a legal product, none of this would have happened. The lawmakers screwed us, and we turned around and screwed them, and they can't take the blame to save their lives.
The government created this cigarette black market and if the terrorist are in on the deal, the lawmakers have no one to blame but themselves.
Last I looked, cigarettes are still a legal product and it's the American Way to Shop Cheap.
