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State Looks to Snuff out Tax Break on Little Cigars
The Scranton Times-Tribune ^
| 7/28/06
| David Singleton
Posted on 07/28/2006 10:41:52 AM PDT by Namyak
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Apparently the Pennsylvania state government is slowly making the move towards taxing all tobacco products. Apparently the unconscionable amount of money they reap off of cigarette smokers isn't enough anymore. Always looking for ways to extract just one more cent out of the people. Disgusting.
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posted on
07/28/2006 10:41:53 AM PDT
by
Namyak
To: Namyak
We all knew this was coming!
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posted on
07/28/2006 10:43:57 AM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(To attack one section of Christianity in this day and age, is to waste time.)
To: Namyak
My fear is once they start taxing that, theyll start taxing everything, Ever the way of the politician.
To: SheLion
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posted on
07/28/2006 10:47:37 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yans Wife
("Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. "--Aeschylus)
To: Namyak
How long until the first Clinton joke?
To: Namyak
Went to Smokin Jpoes website and the current price is $14.00 carton (10 packs).
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posted on
07/28/2006 10:48:43 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: Namyak
If they are wrapped in tobacco that should make the cigars no matter what size.
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posted on
07/28/2006 10:51:10 AM PDT
by
gondramB
(Named must your fear be before banish it you can.)
To: MichiganConservative
>>How long until the first Clinton joke?<<
Yeah, I was expecting a response like
"Now, Bill Clinton can date younger girls."
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posted on
07/28/2006 10:55:07 AM PDT
by
gondramB
(Named must your fear be before banish it you can.)
To: Namyak
The word "cigarette" means "Little Cigar"...........
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posted on
07/28/2006 10:59:33 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
To: Gabz; SheLion
This one is probably a nanny state ping and a puff list ping.....
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posted on
07/28/2006 11:00:02 AM PDT
by
CSM
("Most men's inappropriate thoughts end as soon as the girl talks..." - Dinsdale, 5/30/06)
To: Namyak
I had a friend in Oklahoma who smoked little cigars. They smelled much better than cigarettes.
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posted on
07/28/2006 11:04:40 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(I've always wanted to be 40 ... and it's as good as I anticipated!)
To: Namyak
My fear is once they start taxing that, theyll start taxing everything, Mr. Meyers said. If Mr. Meyers isn't a conservative already, he may have just had the epiphany that will make him one.
It's highly ironic that the states are noticing little cigars, which have been around for years and years, only after more people have started switching over to them from cigarettes -- excercising their freedom as consumers and their right to refuse to shoulder an excessive and burdensome tax.
Sometimes it's hard to believe that this is the same country that once had a Boston Tea Party and a Whiskey Rebellion.
To: Namyak
As a nonsmoker I haven't been paying attention, but have the feds and the states figured out that some people roll their own?
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posted on
07/28/2006 11:51:42 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Loose lips sink ships - and the New York Times really doesn't have a problem with sinking ships.)
To: netmilsmom
Its price. Its strictly the price, Mr. Brier said of the popularity of little cigars. Theyre not overtaking cigarettes by any means, but they are going.
Market forces....NO WAY!!!!
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posted on
07/28/2006 12:04:16 PM PDT
by
xpertskir
(McCain Lieberman '08(democratic ticket))
To: Namyak
It's been nearly fifty years ago that, as a teenager, I inhaled a draw from a Between the Acts little cigar. I'm still coughing.
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posted on
07/28/2006 12:31:28 PM PDT
by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com)
To: Namyak
Jack Asses setting their priorities !
To: Old Professer
>>Went to Smokin Jpoes website and the current price is $14.00 carton (10 packs).<<
At the BP station near my house, their marquee sign states that Smokers Choice (the same thing) are 8.95 a carton.
Premium cigarettes are 45.00 a carton.
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posted on
07/28/2006 2:20:52 PM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(To attack one section of Christianity in this day and age, is to waste time.)
To: netmilsmom
Late apology: I can spell great, I just can't always hit the exact key on the board; fat fingers.
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posted on
07/29/2006 9:45:13 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: Namyak; Just another Joe; CSM; lockjaw02; Publius6961; elkfersupper; nopardons; metesky; Mears; ...
Nanny State PING...............
$$$$$$$$$ That's all they care about.....money which equals power which equals control.
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posted on
07/29/2006 9:54:22 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(Taxaholism, the disease you elect to have (TY xcamel))
To: netmilsmom
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posted on
07/29/2006 9:54:33 AM PDT
by
patton
(LGOPs = head toward the noise, kill anyone not dressed like you.)
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