[Drango]

The govt doesn't much like enterprising folks who try to circumvent paying taxes.

Some of the people on FR like to portray themselves as tax patriots, bucking the system, fighting the good fight, standing up to government. The line becomes rather dubious when it's revealed that they are mostly smokers and what they are advocating is becoming tax CHEATS. Unfortunately for them tax cheat isn't a conservative value.

[Godebert]

You sound like a mix of Joe Biden and Henry Waxman. I think you’re on the wrong website.

[Drew68]

Unfortunately for them tax cheat isn't a conservative value.

In an age when everyone wants their pet projects to be funded by tobacco taxes, personally, I couldn't care less if smokers found ways to avoid paying the taxes they've been burdoned with.

My argument that growing tobacco and then expecting a slap on the wrist when the revenuers find out about it is wishful thinking. Case in point, when Eliot Spitzer was AG of New York, he seized the customer records of internet tobacco sales and then sent the customers a tax bill with interest and penalties and garnished the wages of those who didn't immediately fork over the money, many owing thousands of dollars.

And yeah, I have a feeling you'd agree wholeheartedly with Spitzer on this.

[dcwusmc]

What is “cheating” about keeping what is MINE by right of having EARNED it? Which government tax agency do you work for? You surely do NOT belong here!

[Hot Tabasco]

Unfortunately for them tax cheat isn't a conservative value.

So, let me get this straight. Taxes are bad and conservatives opposed to taxation are good.

Confiscatory taxes directed at one specific segment of society are up for YOUR approval and anyone attempting to circumvent such targeted confiscatory taxes is bad.............

This is indeed becoming a bizarro world..........

[nomad]

I think tobacco is WAY over taxed and I don`t smoke or use any tobacco products at all.Whats so good about taxes,especially when leftists tax unPC things but conveniently forget the PC ones,tell me,where`s the rump ranger,turd burglar tax?They soak up a good deal of health care funds too.

[elkfersupper]

Unfortunately for them tax cheat isn't a conservative value.

The founding fathers of this country were tax cheats.

It is one's patriotic and economic duty to minimize tax impact.

There is nothing stopping you from paying more taxes than what your overlords say is due from you.

[gidget7]

By your definition, I, by not buying anything taxable at all, unless it is an absolute, am a tax cheat. I am avoiding, purposely! sending any taxes I can avoid to the govt, state of federal.

So I am a tax cheat. I shop at the places that sell in bulk, so I further minimize my tax input. And I will continue to!

[jjm2111]

Oh please. I’m no smoker and anybody can see that cigarette taxes are very punitive. The gov’t has created this black market w/ their punitive taxes on smokes.