Senate OKs cigarette tax hike, closes corporate loopholes

South Coast Today ^ | May 7, 2008 | David Kibbe

[The Ghost of Rudy McRomney]

What the hell did you mean by that?

[martinidon]

“A tax on the poor that liberals support”
Bingo, I hope they raise it another $1. It will be the only way to get our taxes back that the government as redistributed to the poor!

[Doohickey]

It’s been a long time since the Whiskey Rebellion and Shays’ Rebellion, hasn’t it? We just bend over and take it like good little serfs now.

[Old Professer]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121012081570272357.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

[No Truce With Kings]

“In college I paid $3.19 a carton for cigarettes and $3.29 a 6 pack for Natural Light.”

Geeze. You must be older’n dirt.

(I mean that in a nice way, of course. I remember nickle candy bars.)

[Dixie Yooper]

We’ll take the corporations that Mass. doesn’t want, but they have to keep their smokers.

[AppyPappy]

That was 1976 in NC.

[The Pack Knight]

That, and he hasn’t be governor for years.

[The Pack Knight]

I’m sure the Russian mob and Hezbollah are happy to hear about this, too. They make a lot of money off this sort of thing.

[Little Bill]

True, I remember when butts were $2.02 a carton and Bud was $3.69 a case in Mass. You could also buy a rifle at 18, 16 with a note from Mother.

[The Ghost of Rudy McRomney]

Ah, another of FRs resident rabid smoker-haters. That’s what I thought you meant. Still another ‘convenient’ or ‘selective’ conservative....”I believe in freedom and rights, EXCEPT where _______(fill in the blank) is concerned, because I don’t like it.” Gotcha.

[BlackbirdSST]

...but these tobacco companies pay high taxes, right?

Corporations don't pay taxes, not one red cent. Blackbird.

[HoosierHawk]

The Senate tax package, which passed 31 to 6, would raise nearly $472 million in revenue next year.

Wanna bet on it? And why do "journalists" always talk of government confiscation as if it were a charitable contribution?

[Dixie Yooper]

The article is about Mass taxing the corporations right out of the state, oh, and another tax increase on cigibutts. The means of making a living are leaving in droves, and all you can think of is having to pay more for your fix.

[elkfersupper]

I already buy my smokes in New Hampshire for $ 35.00 a carton.

I buy mine from the Native Americans (formerly Indians) for $13.00 per carton.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Madame Dufarge]

As far as I can tell, it’s apparently OK to express spittle-flecked hatred as long as you use a biblical reference as your tag line.

[from occupied ga]

The Red Sox,the Pats,the Celtics, the Bruins,and Boston College hockey.

Not bad, but even though we have the Hawks :-(, I'd still rather live here. I've personally seen the gun control billboards in the city that was the heart of the American revolution. My kid went to college in Boston, so I got a first hand report on what it was like and nothing I've seen or heard since then has led me to believe it has improved.

[The Ghost of Rudy McRomney]

Yeah, I hadn’t noticed that. What a fine Christian attitude.

[Disturbin]

Funny how not too far from the Shays’ Rebellion site is Amherst, moonbat capital of western Mass.

At this point, people are far too scared of their government to protest like that. Unless, of course, they’re illegal aliens demanding benefits which they’ve not earned.