Posted on 09/06/2006 10:08:11 AM PDT by SheLion
Why should I pay for her cigarettes? Will she also want me to pay for a new Cadillac? Perhaps if she got a job and quit smoking she and her daughter could live in comfort.
"Plenty of working people paying their own way who smoke, but let's conflate welfare recipients with smokers, lest some small sympathy for the shakedown victims seep out."
I noticed that right away, too.
It sucked in more than one person on this thread. So, I guess it worked.
They could have used anyone as an interviewee and I'd not feel any sympathy one way or the other.
We all have habits we like to indulge in (notice I did not say vices). We all pay taxes. Nobody likes to pay them. But we do anyone.
And when something gets too expensive, we give it up, or give something else up. It's called making choices with what resources you have available.
Would this story gain any traction if someone were complaining about taxes on booze?
Well...yes, and anything else the taxpayers are stupid enough to foot the bill....
Doesn't matter if it's Cadillac or a wheelchair, it is not government's responsibility to take care of someone from cradle to grave. Personal responsibility, planning, family, charity of others, and draw-down of personal resources (re: the Medicare/Medicaid income divestiture scams many people attempt) should come first before government gets stuck with the bill.
Well, if you live in Maine, you should have been seeing the commercials all year about the Use Tax that Maine has been putting on the TV.
IF we buy ANYTHING off of the Internet or in CATALOGS, we are to pay MAINE the USE TAX for this.
It's a bunch of Bull chit, and they better not try to come after me, that's all I got to say about this deal!
You live in Maine? You haven't seen those ads? They play them a LOT! Makes me want to puke!
Carolyn
When they triple the price of booze with taxes, I support buying that tax free as well.
Out-of-state 'contraband' - bad; Muslim imports - good.
Oh yes! There you go. All those Somali's that were brought to Lewiston by Baldacci and Rep Tom Allen. They can both kiss my arze! We are the most taxed state in the Union and one of the poorest behind Tennessee. So, if Maine is still screaming for more tax money, just where the hell is the tax money they have GOING to?
It's time to clean that house out in Augusta, and I mean it!
Karl Turner that son of a bitch! I hate his guts!
Maine: STATE SEN. KARL TURNER (R-Cumberland)(RINO) to eliminate smoking in TAVERNS, LOUNGES AND POOL HALLS!
<-------- Typical Maine RINO!
Maine: ST.SEN. KARL TURNER (R-Cumberland) to elmininate smoking in TAVERNS, LOUNGES AND POOL HALLS!
Carolyn, doncha know that California and Maine are basta$d cousins? LOL
Don't you roll your own?
Well, the Maine smokers who are lucky enough to live close to the border of NH drive over there to smoke and buy cigarettes. The stink from Maine anti's hasn't rubbed off on NH yet, although the anti's are working real hard!
Where did you read where the rest of us are paying taxes for her? Cigarettes in Maine went through the roof because the damn lawmakers raised the taxes up to $2.00 a PACK. It's the American Way to Shop Cheap. A lot of smokers are going elsewhere to buy cheaper cigarettes and now Maine smokers have to hold their breath because of the under handed dealings of Maine government!
I think it's an outrage!
Plenty of working people paying their own way who smoke, but let's conflate welfare recipients with smokers, lest some small sympathy for the shakedown victims seep out.
You make a good point there, Madame!
I was recently pointed to the Constitution and it is against the law for Maine or any state to "demand" tax money from items bought out of state. I need to find that!
For 4 years now.
Move to NC and work for big tobacco. You get them free.
"Don't you roll your own? For 4 years now."
Careful, them there papers and machines is drug paraphernalia.
Well, they are sold behind the counters in the grocery stores up here AND in our Smoke Shop in town.
FILTERED, too! :)
You're kidding right? I pay $26 a carton here.
About $67/carton in NJ. Wife and I both quit this year completely. I was down to about 5-7 smokes a day, but until she finally decided to stop, I was having trouble finishing it. I did two weeks on the #3(weakest) patch, she went 2 weeks on patch #1, 8 on patch #2 and 2 weeks on patch #3. It's nice to not pay those greedy ass politicians another penny in cig tax.
And yes, the tax was definately part of the equation.
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