Says Mike: "There's a clear correlation . . . You raise your cigarette taxes, fewer children go and smoke."
He is one sorry idiot! Little Hitler of New York City!
Posted on 02/12/2006 4:48:30 AM PST by ReleaseTheHounds
Mayor Bloomberg's recently announced budget includes jacking up the city's tax on cigarettes another 50 cents.
Says Mike: "There's a clear correlation . . . You raise your cigarette taxes, fewer children go and smoke."
Actually, according to the Centers for Disease Control, New Yorkers' smoking habits mirror national trends; tax hikes have no evident effect. But that's beside the point.
The mayor really should deal with certainties — one of them being that organized crime would make a killing.
New York's history with cigarette taxes is a long, sordid and embarrassing tale, as documented in an insightful study by Patrick Fleenor.
The city's first tax on smokes came in 1938 and was, like all new taxes, "temporary." Politicians assumed the penny-per-pack levy would be innocuous.
The reverse was true: Cigarette bootlegging, crime associated with bootlegging and "border-shopping" (buying smokes from outside New York) immediately became problems.
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Mayor Bloomberg's recently announced budget includes jacking up the city's tax on cigarettes another 50 cents.
Says Mike: "There's a clear correlation . . . You raise your cigarette taxes, fewer children go and smoke."
How much are cigarettes up there now? At one time I heard they were $50-$60 a carton.
This is what they are counting on, that the smokers will still smoke thereby funding government coffers with new tax money. It has nothing to do with keeping children from smoking.
I still get irritated that this guy calls himself a Republican. I wish there was a mechanism for kicking people OUT of the party.
$70.00 a carton in most parts of the city.
Only liberals would use taxes to raise the crime rate by saying "We're doing it for the children".
Bloomberg should retake an Economics 101 class. Supply and demand sets the price for a commodity -- not taxes.
Yeah, jack up those taxes!
Then I think I'll invest in a few thousand dollars of cigarettes here in NH and drive my truck and trailer down to NYC on the weekends and make a killing!
Wahoooo!
The best way to reduce crime is to make more things legal.
In a separate article published the same day, the man who headed up the Franchise Tax Board said that he didn't know if the number of smokers had declined, but there was a 30% drop in tax revenue from cigarettes.
He further stated that he suspected people were buying their smokes elsewhere.
They'll never learn ... all they think about is the easy tax money
Bloomberg is a RINO, on a good day! The rest of the time he is just another liberal idiot!
No funds donated for Republican efforts should ever cross his desk!
Then I think I'll invest in a few thousand dollars of cigarettes here in NH and drive my truck and trailer down to NYC on the weekends and make a killing!
To carry that line of thought a bit further - just imagine that underage persons resort to dealing in contraband tobacco and move on to prostitute themselves, and theft to pay for tobacco, them they arm themselves to protect their cache of illegal commodity that the police will not protect. - Sounds familiar doesn't it?
Says Mike: "There's a clear correlation . . . You raise your cigarette taxes, fewer children go and smoke."
He is one sorry idiot! Little Hitler of New York City!
Firing a guy who stepped outside to smoke while on the job and keeping the head of Children's Services while babies are murdered regularly who were under his department's auspices.
New York City: A PAIN IN THE BUTTS Smokers, beware.
Bloomberg told reporters yesterday he would like to boost cigarette taxes by 50 cents a pack in the city, which would raise the overall city tax to $2 a pack on top of the $1.50 state tax.
New York City Smokers are in trouble: WEB BUYERS $MOKED OUT
Price-conscious smokers who thought they landed fantastic bargains on the Internet have been hit by the city with bills totaling nearly $1.4 million, officials said yesterday.
A crackdown on tax-free cigarette sales on the Web hauled in $695,479 from 2,156 puffers out of the $1,354,880 demanded in the first round of bills sent out to 3,780 New York City residents through May
Can't stand the high taxes?
Afraid to order off of the Internet?
Then start rolling your own!!! I find everything but the machine downtown at the local Smoke Shop. Also, Rite Aid and grocery stores also sell the bags of tobacco and the filtered tubes.
I roll out a beautiful carton for a little under $8 dollars. Premiums in my state are now up to $45-$50 a carton. Can you imagine the money I have saved over the past 4 years since I now roll my own? It's mind boggling.
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