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Push on to raise Maryland cigarette tax to $3 a pack
The Washington Times ^
| October 6, 2011
| David Hill
Posted on 10/07/2011 8:34:01 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Eric Blair 2084; SheLion; Gabz; Hank Kerchief; 383rr; libertarian27; traviskicks; bamahead; CSM; ...
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Awesome.....more money for Virginia.
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posted on
10/07/2011 8:35:33 PM PDT
by
Wage Slave
(Army Mom!)
To: Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; cindy-true-supporter; ...
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
They should make it ‘cool’ 20.
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posted on
10/07/2011 8:40:11 PM PDT
by
allmost
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
“Many smokers appreciate increases in the tobacco tax to help them quit.” True dat.
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posted on
10/07/2011 8:40:22 PM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It is inevitable that we will someday read about no knock BATF raids on clandestine hydroponic Kentucky burley grow operations under high pressure sodium vapor lights. and mexicans growing it on federal lands and state parks.
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posted on
10/07/2011 8:47:20 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
There is a bud of mine who regularly drives to Virginia and the Carolinas. He's going to be happy to haul bootleg cigarettes only as far as Maryland now rather than having to drive all the way to Pennsylvania.
He tells me there is a great market for this kind of thing. You can easily fit enough packs in your car trunk to pay for a trip to Myrtle Beach and back plus a little extra. If you know where to go, the chances of being detected are almost nil. My bud has offered to help set me up with the proper introductions, but so far I've resisted the temptation.
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posted on
10/07/2011 8:48:43 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Vince should just make cigarettes and other tobacco items illegal. Oops, that wouldn’t suit his agenda.
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posted on
10/07/2011 8:50:07 PM PDT
by
Rembrandt
(.. AND the donkey you rode in on.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
What no “It is for the children” pitch?
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posted on
10/07/2011 8:50:18 PM PDT
by
razorback-bert
(Some days it's not worth chewing through the straps.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
If $3 is better wouldn’t $30 be better still?
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posted on
10/07/2011 8:51:34 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 989 of America's holiday from reality...)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Ah yes, you’ve got to love the Political mind - tax them and we will get rich. Unfortunately, the taxed seem to find ways around them at every turn. (Love the stop light cameras - don’t you? - they bring in so much revenue)...
It comes down to government sucks at attempting to raise taxes via sin taxes or tolls or just about anything else that the taxee’s (made up term) have control over.
These folks are smart enough to find ways around these silly government taxes and eventually, the return is less than they had before taxes were raised. Will they never learn!
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posted on
10/07/2011 8:55:07 PM PDT
by
Deagle
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I don’t know how people can continue to smoke now days. I quit when it passed the $1 barrier. Now here in Washington a pack of name brands will cost you between 7 and 9 dollars a pack.
To: NavyCanDo
Ah, little do you know grasshopper! There are ways...
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posted on
10/07/2011 8:57:10 PM PDT
by
Deagle
To: Deagle
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posted on
10/07/2011 9:00:35 PM PDT
by
libertarian27
(Agenda21: Dept. of Life, Dept. of Liberty and the Dept. of Happiness)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
If tobacco is so bad, outlaw it and hand it over to the DEA.
They've done such a good job with all the other contraband substances.
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posted on
10/07/2011 9:03:22 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them." --Ronald Reagan)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Go for it. Anyone stupid enough to smoke and live in Maryland also, deserves to be punished. Deal with it.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Sounds like someone who owns some smoke shops in Northern Virginia has been whispering in the right ears. Maryland is small enough to drive across state lines to pickup smokes.
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posted on
10/07/2011 9:15:21 PM PDT
by
ClayinVA
("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
To: Drango
“Many smokers appreciate increases in the tobacco tax to help them quit.”
...the state.
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posted on
10/07/2011 9:31:06 PM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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