State Looks to Snuff out Tax Break on Little Cigars

The Scranton Times-Tribune ^ | 7/28/06 | David Singleton

[patton]

Hey, go do your homework. You have a reading assignment...LOL

[DakotaRed]

Good price for them. But, most every online tobacco seller now is required to report who is buying online from them to the satte the buyer lives in, so the state can "collect" appropriate taxes.

I used to buy online but stopped when Washington State went after online buyers, hitting them for back taxes and hefty fines as well.

This ne push for taxes should wake people up as to what is the real motive, MONEY! But I doubt it will open the eyes of any smoke gnatzie.

[Reeses]

I inhaled a draw from a Between the Acts little cigar

Cigar and pipe smoke is not usually inhaled. The nicotine is absorbed by the gums, not the lungs, and a cigarette-style addiction doesn't usually develop. A study once showed that men who smoke cigars and pipes live longer than those who don't, and non-PC life insurance companies do not charge smoker rates for cigar and pipe smokers because there's little actuary evidence that they subtract significantly from lifespan. Cigars and pipes should not be taxed like cigarettes which use a light Virginia tobacco easy to inhale.

[Gabz]

I finished the assignment this morning.......just haven't finished editting it yet.............

[patton]

lol

[netmilsmom]

>>You are in MI?<<

Yes!

[patton]

I thought I remembered that - I had a dream, once, that cigs in MI got to $40 a carton. So I sold every thing I owned in MI, and left.

[383rr]

“In a nutshell, if it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it’s a duck,” said Nils Frederiksen, spokesman for Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett."


Holy moly, that makes me feel real good.

I love knowing the decisions they make that affect our everyday lives are based on this kind of solid-as-a-rock logic.

Idiots and theives, all of them.

[uglybiker]

...but have the feds and the states figured out that some people roll their own?

Hush! Quiet! Don't give 'em any ideas!

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[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[elkfersupper]

Somewhere, sometime, somehow, somebody may be having fun and enjoying themselves.

This has to be stopped.

Party poopers.

[freepatriot32]

Owner John Meyers agrees the small cigars are essentially cigarettes, but he’d still hate to see them taxed.

“My fear is once they start taxing that, they’ll start taxing everything,” Mr. Meyers said.

Yep that is exactly what will happen sooner rather then later

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