Posted on 04/06/2008 5:34:27 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Howie Carr thread; columns, discussion of his show. Is there a winner in the death pool? Charlton Heston won't be down for bkfst...also if there's a Sunday Herald column today we'll lead off with that
Fri show ping
“Yes We Can ~ Tax the #$%@ out of you”
New Hampshire, and all surrounding states are going to make a ton of tax money on this.
Road Trip
This tax will push a lot of smokers to buy in bulk elsewhere instead of picking up a pack at a store like getting a coffee. Even if you would burn $4 of gas to get there the $10+++ savings is going to well make up for it.
Any store within a half hour of a border is going to suffer.
I bet most stores fall into that radius.
The scary part is how Mass is following Maine’s lead with the use tax.
Now they ask you to *volunteer* how much you spent out of state. Since Maine has the credit card companies send records of how much you spent, the only smart option is to buy your smokes in NH using cash.
If I had a truck (and didn't hate driving), I'd seriously consider striking out as an entrepreneur making the run to North Carolina once a month or so! ;-)
I distinctly remember there were two years (can't remember when though) when the MA tax form had a line for "Income from illegal sources"! I guess it didn't work out that well . . . I guess the state reps declined to fill it in! ;-)
ME is following the same suicidal motif as MA -- who would shop there who didn't have to? A friend of mine goes to NH once or twice a month, primarily for cigarettes for her husband. She said the savings, even apart from the cigarettes, more than covered the cost of the gas. I tagged along once to see for myself -- now she takes me every time, and I do virtually all my grocery shopping there. The in-between weeks, I spend maybe $10 or $15 in MA -- if Stop & Shop has any good specials.
I had to look up your comment on taxes for illegal activity:
Bingo - here’s one
COMMONWEALTH vs. RICHARD N. BOGANNAM
~snip~ this court case is from 2001
Tipped by the Peabody police that the defendant, Richard Bogannam, had been arrested for trafficking in a controlled substance, G. L. c. 94C, § 32E, the Massachusetts Department of Revenue initiated an investigation into the defendant’s income tax returns, through its special investigations unit. After his indictment on the criminal charge in 1990, but before his ultimate plea of guilty in July, 1991,(1) the special investigations unit issued a notice of assessment and a notice of filing of Massachusetts tax lien, claiming unpaid taxes on income derived as a result of illegal activities for the years 1989 and 1990.(2) The defendant paid the income tax assessed, and, for amounts due in tax year 1989, also paid interest, additional penalties for failure to report the income, and a jeopardy assessment, all pursuant to G. L. c. 62C, §§ 26(d),(3) 28, and 29
~Can’t make this stuff up~
LOL! They didn’t go after any state reps though, did they? ;-)
Looks like the company vehicle will be making weekly trips to NH for cigarettes.Don’t want to,but$6.50+ a pack is too rich for my nicotine flavored blood
Happy travelin'! :)
Thank wu!
He also got to interview Bucky Dent..."who knows that it was that home run made his name and career."
Oh, and Miller mentioned something about the new Yankee Stadium, if you haven't seen it: Red Sox fan adds high-jinx to Yankees rivalry
Walking down the street with a cigarette in my mouth or hand I am constantly asked ‘ if I had an extra smoke ‘. Last January a guy pulled over to the side of a busy street in Belmont to ask if I had a cigarette.
Going out for a beer? Oh, brother...all night long people ask for cigarettes if I am outside smoking.
No one wants to spend their own money for smokes but they don’t mind bumming them. You should see the reactions I get when I say I’m ‘ running low - sorry. ‘ People really get pissed off.
I get asked for cigarettes by people behind me in line at Store 24 just after I buy them!
I talked to a construction worker today who was from NJ. He said in New York a pack runs 8.25.
Looks like I’ll be buying one of those hand crank cigarette machines. 6.50 a pack is murder.
And yes, it pissed people off then as well.
I had a guy begin to debate me over exactly how many cigarettes I had left when I told him I was running low.
I was in a pricing class in b-school in the early 1990s. The prof said he just turned down a job to do cigarette pricing for a "major" industry player. "Ethics", he said.
Not being a regular smoker, I didn't pay attention to the price of a pack, but the class exercise used $20/carton as a base and we went from there.
With $2/pack fixed in my mind, and Marlboro being a premium brand, imagine my surprise when I saw later that year, at a snack bar, Marlboros being advertised at $1.25/pack (in Maine, no less).
I guess the job the prof was offered turned into a price war.
From a thread yesterday:
Geoff Montgomery: "It's worse than horrible because a zombie has no will of his own. You see them sometimes walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring.Larry Lawrence: "You mean like Democrats?"
And that was back in 1940.
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