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N.Y., eSmokes settle over online cigarette sales taxes
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| March 8, 2006
| Sewell Chan
Posted on 03/09/2006 3:58:12 AM PST by SheLion
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To: SheLion
It's still not too late to start our folks growing them tobacco plants. I just transferred five plants into bigger peat pots and re-seeded another tray. They're so tiny and fragile when they're young. I hope they all survive this year.
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posted on
03/09/2006 4:44:39 AM PST
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: SheLion
What kills me is these taxes are OUR money! Not once the government plunders it :-)
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posted on
03/09/2006 4:51:00 AM PST
by
from occupied ga
(Peace through superior firepower)
To: RandallFlagg
I spent my early childhood in the tobbacco farming region of VA. I remember a great uncle using a steam tractor not only to plough, but to steam sterilize the soil to kill weeds and weed seeds. Pretty neat stuff to a little kid! Good luck in your growing.
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posted on
03/09/2006 4:54:52 AM PST
by
from occupied ga
(Peace through superior firepower)
To: Nomorjer Kinov
I've said it before. The cigarette companies should change their packaging. Why do they have to have only 20 per pack? Since the tax is BY Pack, they could easily start packaging mega packs of 500 or 1000 cigarettes.
To: Master of Orion
The cigarette companies should change their packaging. Why do they have to have only 20 per pack? Since the tax is BY Pack, they could easily start packaging mega packs of 500 or 1000 cigarettes. The states got around that many years ago, when 25 cig packs first started appearing and they felt they were "losing" revenue on those 5 cigs. Cigs are taxed per cigarette now in nearly every state.
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posted on
03/09/2006 5:43:41 AM PST
by
Gabz
(Smokers are the beta version)
To: SheLion
A judge can ban the sale of a legal product?
Did he find that in the Chinese communist constitution or the Nazi Germany laws?
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posted on
03/09/2006 6:13:19 AM PST
by
sergeantdave
(The business of business is none of the government's business)
To: Nomorjer Kinov
The tobacco companies really need to strike back.BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.......You're funny!
The tobacco companies already knuckled under, kowtowed, and are still on their knees to the government begging to pass on any "settlements" to thier customers as a price increase.
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posted on
03/09/2006 6:28:29 AM PST
by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: RandallFlagg
I
t's still not too late to start our folks growing them tobacco plants. I just transferred five plants into bigger peat pots and re-seeded another tray. They're so tiny and fragile when they're young. I hope they all survive this year.I wish you all the best in growing your tobacco, Randall, but it sounds too tedious for me. And I would probably smoke it all up in a week. But keep us posted on how you are doing. :)
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posted on
03/09/2006 6:43:03 AM PST
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: SheLion
The stuff I'm growing now won't be ready to smoke for at least a year after processing.
HEH! "The Stuff." Sounds like I'm growing something other than tobacco, huh?
I just woke up.
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posted on
03/09/2006 6:46:21 AM PST
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: RandallFlagg
The stuff I'm growing now won't be ready to smoke for at least a year after processing.
HEH! "The Stuff." Sounds like I'm growing something other than tobacco, huh?LOL! That's ok Randall. We who know you know what you mean!!! :)
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posted on
03/09/2006 7:33:58 AM PST
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: Cagey
"Unfairly cheated of revenues?" How come the city doesn't think taxing citizens is unfairly cheating tax payers of their earnings?
Roll your own and continue to "cheat" the governmant. More power to you!
To: Cagey
I did meet some people from German not that long ago and in that group of five, four were making their own cigarettes. When camping in France (I know, what a mistake) in 1982 we ran into some Dutch folks who were rolling their own. I could never imagine doing this as at the time we were paying $6.00 for a carton of Marlboros at the commissary while they were paying the equivalent of $20.00.
Fast forward 20 years to a point where now *I* was rolling my own till I quit.
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posted on
03/09/2006 7:41:41 AM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
(What? Me worry?)
To: SheLion
I used to order over the net but I lucked out when they opened an export store on the border. In a pinch I can smoke Mexican Marlboros too, they're not that bad.
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posted on
03/09/2006 7:41:58 AM PST
by
tiki
To: SheLion
It's kinda funny. Sometimes I wake up later than usual and have to take my stuffer, box of tubes and bag of greens with me to crank out a few before shift. When the others watch, they almost always say, "It'd work on weed, I suppose?"
I never could stand the smell of that stuff, so you know the answer to that.
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posted on
03/09/2006 7:43:32 AM PST
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: All
Well, here is one alternative: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.
under $50.00
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posted on
03/09/2006 7:48:48 AM PST
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: Nomorjer Kinov
Not for long! When the baby boomers retire government will have no choice but to pull back from being every thing to every one. They simply won't have the money. I'm going to look forward to the shrieks coming from the various legislature and the feds. It is going to happen!
To: tiki
I used to order over the net but I lucked out when they opened an export store on the border. In a pinch I can smoke Mexican Marlboros too, they're not that bad.Well, good for you. They are cheaper across the border?
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posted on
03/09/2006 7:49:47 AM PST
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: SheLion
To: SheLion
I guess the government tax-monster missed one meal too many.I'm sure he'll catch up. Also, I look for them to try to get back-taxes for ALL on-line purchases. I wondered how long it would take. Land of the free, home of the over- taxed.
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posted on
03/09/2006 12:29:40 PM PST
by
383rr
(Those who choose security over liberty deserve neither- GUN CONTOL=SLAVERY)
To: SheLion
Not only what they do with our tax dollars, but how they get off estimating the amount that should be coming in at the end of the year from taxes on cigarette sales, and spending that.........before it gets there. Then they call it a loss in tax revenue! It's not a loss if it was meant to make people quit. It's only a loss if it isn't about making people quit. It is only about bringing in the money. The more people who quit, the higher the taxes will go to compensate these governments for their "loss of revenue" which is only a loss of projected revenue.
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posted on
03/09/2006 1:06:31 PM PST
by
gidget7
(Get GLDSEN out of our schools!!)
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