Tax Nazis on the march again.
Michigan is circling the drain.
What if someone drives over state lines, buys a trunk full of cigarettes, and then returns home to Michigan?
This has been happening in WA state, as well. I guess the various states have been able to get customer information from online cigarette sellers.
"By the rude bridge that arched the flood, their flag to April's breeze unfurled....."
"If it's on the books as a tax it's our duty to ensure its collected and collect it appropriately,"
Dolts. They should've driven to WI and bought their heaters on the Indian reservations. Once a month, a rotating designated driver could do the run and buy enough smokes for an entire cancer ward.
Of course, I only make this suggestion in jest. We all know that it is very, very important to always do just as the government says in all matters of life and spirit and to diligently and excessively pay every cent of tax any legislator ever dreams of leveling.
The solution to all this is to learn to speak Spanish, wear a Dodgers baseball cap and never carry any form of identification on your person.
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Interesting that a tariff is imposed between states but not on the flood of goods from foreign shores.
...so we can find people who are avoiding cigarette taxes, but we can't find illegal aliens?
"The Department of Treasury has tried very hard over the past few years to make it very clear that there are no such thing as a tax-free cigarettes -- not legally anyway,"
Neither are illegal immigrants.
Now I feel better.
Please resume normal postings.
And the Stop Smoking programs? Anti-smoking advertising? Stepped-up enforcement of licensed retailers? You know, the things that were promised when you instituted this confiscatory tax?
Michigan is a Marxist hellhole run by a communist governor put in office by brainless, brainwashed useful idiots.
Productive people are leaving by the tens of thousands along with thousands of businesses.
Michigan is an example of what will happen to America if the Stalinist Hillary gets into the whitehouse.
Avoid Michigan at all costs.
And we're supposed to be protected by the federal constitution against this sort of theft, but who's paying attention to the constitution?
The federal and state governments are already engaged in anarchy, deciding which laws it will or won't enforce. When citizens catch on to the scam and decide they won't obey laws either, we'll see war in this country.