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MD man pleads guilty in black-market cigarette scheme (big customer base with $8/pack NY tax)
Washington Post ^
| April 1, 2011
| Maria Glod
Posted on 04/02/2011 4:05:21 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
GE doesn’t have to pay taxes.
Why should anyone else?
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posted on
04/02/2011 4:10:09 AM PDT
by
bigheadfred
(Beat me, Bite me...Make Me Write Bad Checks)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
in New York, where local taxes are more than $8 per pack$8.00 per pack? What an extortion racket.
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posted on
04/02/2011 4:12:57 AM PDT
by
csvset
To: csvset
$8.00 per pack? I had no idea.
To: bigheadfred
Only, “the little people pay taxes.”
To: Cincinatus' Wife
a scheme that prosecutors said cost the government more than $2.6 million in taxes. Notice that the concern of the government is the loss(not really a loss)of tax money. No mention of these cigs "killing" people off with cancer cells. It has always been about the money and never about the health aspect, the health part was so they could fool people into going along with the outrageous taxes they dumped on cigs.
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posted on
04/02/2011 4:17:37 AM PDT
by
calex59
To: Cincinatus' Wife
And that is the point. Every working “little person” should go exempt. And “accidentally” not file next year. Or this year.
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posted on
04/02/2011 4:26:38 AM PDT
by
bigheadfred
(Beat me, Bite me...Make Me Write Bad Checks)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Johnson (D-Mitchellville), 59, and her husband, former county executive Jack B. Johnson (D), 61
Eric Holder's people.
Jack wears a hat like the old school gangsters. Here's a link to a WaPo pic, (my title) and a Wapo Article.
Crime does pay
Step toward plea in Leslie Johnson case
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posted on
04/02/2011 4:26:58 AM PDT
by
csvset
To: Cincinatus' Wife
I thought Congress was supposed to regulate interstate commerce.
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posted on
04/02/2011 4:27:59 AM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(The Constitution is overthrown. The Revolution is betrayed.)
To: calex59
Our “Government” can piss away 2.6 million dollars after their first cup of coffee in the morning.
To: Cincinatus' Wife
“a scheme that prosecutors said cost the government more than $2.6 million in taxes. “
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...cost them...?????
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posted on
04/02/2011 4:41:33 AM PDT
by
gunnyg
("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
This guy committed the worst crime there is, depriving the government of money.
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posted on
04/02/2011 4:56:47 AM PDT
by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
distributed more than 17 million black-market cigarettes
How many people buy or sell individual cigarettes? I doubt these black marketers did. But of course, 17,000,000 cigarettes sounds a lot bigger than 85,000 cartons.
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posted on
04/02/2011 5:03:35 AM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Smuggling is a noble profession when it deprives criminal syndicate governments of cash.
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posted on
04/02/2011 5:17:34 AM PDT
by
sergeantdave
(The democrat party is a seditious organization and must be outlawed)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Talk about a conflict of interest. The govt. has no motivation to stop people smoking.
To: Cincinatus' Wife
New York, where local taxes are more than $8 per pack
Drive by any NY welfare office and tell me what percent DON'T smoke.
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posted on
04/02/2011 5:42:32 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Iowamerican
Our Government can piss away 2.6 million dollars after their first cup of coffee in the morning. Give them a break, they can pay 2.6 million dollars FOR a cup of coffee.
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posted on
04/02/2011 6:28:11 AM PDT
by
CPOSharky
(The only thing straight, white, Christian males get is the blame for everything.)
To: calex59
a scheme that prosecutors said cost the government more than $2.6 million in taxes. OF course the notion that you can do the calculation of #packs x tax/pack and get a meaningful number is wrong. They would not have seen a fraction of that $2.6M. Moreover, more money for taxes on cigarets would have meant less money for something else. So, for 1 part cigarett you get 8 parts government. At that rate I vote for giving cigaretts away for free.
To: Cincinatus' Wife
That’s $8/pack in TAXES. A pack can cost $11-$12 in NYC.
Regards,
To: R. Scott
Or for comparison 1 truck load.
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posted on
04/02/2011 7:41:21 AM PDT
by
justrepublican
(Screaming like a "Vexatious requester" at a Wellstone memorial...........)
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