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Posted on 08/03/2005 3:32:02 PM PDT by elkfersupper
Haven't you heard? Washington state has all its crime problems solved. There are no potholes in the roads. It's a people's paradise!
I think my brother had the same problem in PA when he was residing in Deleware. It's more income for the state from those who use none of the state's services
Tha last words my father spoke to me, while in the oxygen tent, were "You never smoked cigarettes did you Chuck?" "No Dad" I replied. He said "Don't ever start." He died a few weeks later of lung disease at the age of 72 after sixty years of smoking.
I remember him mentioning, when he was in his fifties, that he was up to three packs a day and should probably cut back and I remember that he always smoked Camel straights. In later years, he smoked filters and "Lights" and tried to quit but never quite managed it, even after he was diagnosed with emphasima(sp?)
Not that I am anti-tobacco. Far from it. I enjoy a good cigar several times a week and I even keep a well stocked humidor on my desk. I've been smoking cigars since Vietnam, 1967. I just never could get behind cigarettes. Never even tried them.
I'm not a smoker, but I think the cigarette market has been and continues to be taxed and retaxed. Product is legal. It's no wonder people and businesses start doing things to get around it. You should be able to buy what you want with your tax free dollars (what's left of it from state/federal taxes). Old colonist had more guts that we do. We need another Boston Tea party !
But if we put a sales tax of 30% on everything, everything will be just fine.
The Fair Tax won't work.
At $16 a case, going after tobacco is going after the big money.
Personally I believe cigarettes ought to be outlawed completely. Then again the government would never do that because it would soon go broke of have to raise the missing tax money on something else.
For now....they're doing their thang one step at a time.
Here's the next progression:
CA, MA or some other socialist state wants to take a back door route to banning guns and ammo and decides to impose a punitive tax of, say $.50 per round, "for the children."
Lawful citizens of the state say "screw that!" and start buying ammo on line from out of state. State watchdogs let things roll for a few years then use the Jenkins Act to find these customers and hit them up for taxes and penaltys.
Score 1 for the state.
What else would you like to have outlawed?
Same way with cigs purchased in Indiana by Michiganders.
I'd buy cigarettes on the web too except they don't handle my brand.
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As it was then.
>>>"Credit card companies and freight delivery services "volunteered" the information under threats of lawsuits by various states.
Oddly enough, they're only going after tobacco, not other goods"<<<
Just step one, they will get around to everything else in due time.
Actually I have done that from a place in Switzerland - Duty free and I got a letter from the BATFE saying they have ceased my shipment's at an airport, New York city. Apparently they don't like non taxable tobacco coming into the USA either
:o)
I switched about a year ago. Now buying from the Indians. These are fabulous. $10 per carton plus shipping.
I agree. Right before the next civil war, or right before the productive people just quit working / investing.
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