1 posted on
02/10/2006 8:47:41 AM PST by
george76
To: george76; Gabz; SheLion
2 posted on
02/10/2006 8:49:41 AM PST by
Fiddlstix
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To: george76
Chicago smokers, shop outside the county and drain the revenue from the city.
3 posted on
02/10/2006 8:49:54 AM PST by
Phantom Lord
(Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
To: george76
The State of Minnesota tacked an additional 75 cents a pack on cigarettes here.
I drive half an hour to Wisconsin now to buy them. While I'm there, I make a point of stopping in at the grocery store to do my week's shopping, as well. There's a nice Home Depot right there, too, when I need some building supplies.
This sort of thing stings states when the main population lives near the border.
The Wisconsin merchants are advertising in the Twin Cities papers, trying to lure Minnesotans to come to Wisconsin to shop.
Silly Minnesota.
4 posted on
02/10/2006 8:53:27 AM PST by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: george76
wow.
This will certainly strengthen the sale and distribution of black-market cigarettes.
Dopes.
7 posted on
02/10/2006 8:58:13 AM PST by
roaddog727
(P=3/8 A. or, P=plenty...............)
To: george76
I get a carton of Pall Mall 22 bucks..Cheap cigs are 11.75
8 posted on
02/10/2006 8:59:06 AM PST by
skaterboy
(My candy cane is so yummy and delicious)
To: george76
"Commissioners voting against the tax hike said shoppers will increasingly hop borders, hurting Cook County businesses. "
But that's the goal of the "tax everything" crowd; to hurt business in any way possible.
11 posted on
02/10/2006 9:00:45 AM PST by
LIConFem
(A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
To: george76
Note to dealers - Tobacco costs more than pot in some states.
12 posted on
02/10/2006 9:01:56 AM PST by
Lexington Green
(JOURNALIST - What a propagandist calls himself.)
To: george76
Chicago didn't learn anything from Al Capone and prohibition.
Guess they are trying to get the gangs to move out of trafficing in drugs and get them to traffic in smokes.
13 posted on
02/10/2006 9:03:14 AM PST by
TASMANIANRED
(The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..".Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity"GW Bush)
To: george76
Roll your own and stick it to all of the Fed and State blood suckers.
14 posted on
02/10/2006 9:05:07 AM PST by
beltfed308
(Cloth or link. Happiness is a perfect trunnion.)
To: george76
When smokers go elsewhere to purchase cheaper cigarettes, Chicago will whine about the evil neighboring states just like Daley whines about guns coming in from suburban communities into Chicago.
These people wouldn't know economics if it stripped naked and got into bed alongside them.
To: george76
A pack of Marlboro Lights that cost $6.59 at a downtown Walgreens Thursday will be $7.59 next month.The same pack costs $4.45 at a White Hen in the DuPage County city of Elmhurst, and it costs $3.76 at a Hammond, Ind...
And $2.40 in Benton, Mo.
If I had a buyer I could trust in Chicago, I would consider it.
25 posted on
02/10/2006 4:38:32 PM PST by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: george76
Crook County beat out Bloomie and nobody noticed.
30 posted on
02/11/2006 6:59:29 AM PST by
drlevy88
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