State cracks down on cigarette prices

Boston Globe ^ | October 18, 2003 | Bruce Mohl

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Cigarette revenues must be off. I wonder why.

[evad]

"I wonder why. "

hehe.. le market nior

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Their taxing little hearts are being pinched. Here comes fat tax, SUV tax, etc, etc, etc to take up the slack.

[agitator]

They don't call this the People's Democratic Republic of Taxxachusetts for nothing.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Sounds like the state wants an easy way to estimate their tax take. Different prices all over are too hard for them to figure out.

[G.Mason]

There's trouble on the street tonight
I can feel it in my bones
I had a premonition
That he should not go alone
I knew the gun was loaded
But I didn't think he'd kill
Ev'rything exploded and the
Blood began to spill
So baby here's your ticket
Put the suitcase in your hand
Here's a little money now
Do it just the way we planned
You be cool for twenty hours
And I'll pay you twenty grand
I'm sorry it went down like this
Someone had to lose
It's the nature of the bus'ness
It's the smuggler's blues

[Drango]

a state law barring the sale of milk below cost

Evil milk....

[TomGuy]

Oklahoma had a similar law through the 1980's. It was a "minimum price" law whose purpose was to keep Mom-n-Pop shops from being run out of business by corporations. The law hurt Walmart's entry into Oklahoma in the late 70's and early 80's because Walmart had to raise their normal prices above their other-state store prices.

[Graybeard58]

"a state law barring the sale of milk below cost

Evil milk."


...What this country needs is a good milk boot legger. Where's Al Cowpone when you need him?

[AppyPappy]

Anti-tobacco liberals want to price cigarettes out of the reach of people. Of course, it merely ends up hurting the poor. Too bad, so sad.

[AppyPappy]

I just hit the abuse button on you.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Of course, it merely ends up hurting the poor. Too bad, so sad.

But the evil corporations, built on the back of slave labor are still profiting. Excessive taxation? It ain't no stinkin' taxes that are hurting the poor it's BIG tobacco.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

/sarcasm

[SheLion]

Roll Your Own. Then you don't HAVE to pay into the state coffers any longer!

and

Smokers United

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Paul Harvey did a bit on how rolled cigarettes in prison are more profitable than illegal drugs. I don't remember the exact numbers he gave but it was in the tens of thousands of dollars for converting a small amount of tobacco into rolled smokes.

[tbpiper]

They don't call this the People's Democratic Republic of Taxxachusetts for nothing.

Now let's be fair about this. Sure the taxes are high but look at all the benenfits the people of the state get. Let me point out one shining example....The Big Dig. I know it's not finished yet, but it will be in 2005, maybe. And, so far it's only cost 14.7 BILLION. Look at it this way, for what they'be paid for a usless hole in the ground, one could almost rebuild Afghanistan and Iraq.

[SheLion]

Paul Harvey did a bit on how rolled cigarettes in prison are more profitable than illegal drugs. I don't remember the exact numbers he gave but it was in the tens of thousands of dollars for converting a small amount of tobacco into rolled smokes.

I don't know about that one. I just know that compared to $45-$50 for one carton of cigarettes, I can roll a carton for $8.00. The savings is mind boggling.

And it's a snap with this machine and the filtered tubes.

[Guillermo]

Where are we, the Soviet Union?

[Guillermo]

Yeah, but the morons who live there continue to vote for the same old politicians and the same old crap.

[SheLion]

Yeah, but the morons who live there continue to vote for the same old politicians and the same old crap.

Exactly!