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The Daily News ^
| May 16,2004
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Posted on 05/16/2004 7:28:19 AM PDT by Leisler
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posted on
05/16/2004 7:28:19 AM PDT
by
Leisler
To: SheLion; Madame Dufarge
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posted on
05/16/2004 7:29:26 AM PDT
by
Leisler
(The Democrats. The nation's oldest organized crime family.)
To: Leisler
You know, most of the time I'm a law-and-order type, but in this instance. God bless the black-marketeers.
This is one non-smoker who gets p!ssed when he sees the continous greed and false piety of the anti-smoking/big-goernment crowd.
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posted on
05/16/2004 7:43:14 AM PDT
by
keithtoo
(Please remove all Kerry-on luggage from your forehead compartments.)
To: keithtoo
God bless the black-marketeers... This is one non-smoker who gets p!ssed when he sees the continous greed and false piety of the anti-smoking/big-goernment crowd. I agree...to hell w/the " its' for the Chil'ren " crowd. :|
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posted on
05/16/2004 7:49:07 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :)
To: Leisler
I love how it says "Robs the city of tens of millions of dollars of revenue each year!"
Uh, first of all, not paying a tax is not "Robbing." Especially when the tax in discussion is onerous and out of proportion with any sense of fairness or even rationality. Second of all, why do we want to give MORE money to governments--they surely waste a quarter of what they extort, at minimum.
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posted on
05/16/2004 7:51:46 AM PDT
by
Skywalk
To: Leisler
The taxpayers of Virginia, Delaware and North Carolina wish to express their gratitude to New York for steering all that revenue our way.
To: Leisler; *puff_list; Just another Joe; SheLion; Madame Dufarge; metesky; CSM; qam1; lockjaw02
Stupid is as stupid does.
What in heaven's name did they expect?
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posted on
05/16/2004 7:59:47 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my second hand smoke.)
To: Skywalk
I agree with you.
One can not be robbed of something they neither had or belonged to them to begin with.
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posted on
05/16/2004 8:01:06 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my second hand smoke.)
To: DeFault User
Yes we do!!!!
I have a friend that owns a tobacco outlet just over the Delaware Memorial Bridge in New Castle. He makes a killing everytime NY and NJ raise their cigarette taxes......and he is only open on weekends.
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posted on
05/16/2004 8:02:54 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my second hand smoke.)
To: keithtoo
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posted on
05/16/2004 8:07:57 AM PDT
by
metesky
(You will be diverse, just like us.)
To: Leisler
Between Free Market Capitalism and Tyranny, there is the "Black Market".
Bloomberg is a piss-poor wannabe-tyrant.
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posted on
05/16/2004 8:17:27 AM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
To: Gabz
Absurdly high cig taxes in Montreal about 15 years ago lead to the black market emergence on cigs, leading to tax revenues actually FALLING.
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posted on
05/16/2004 8:17:42 AM PDT
by
Cobra64
(Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
To: Leisler
"I don't believe it when they say that they raise the price to get people to stop smoking," [deli owner]Othman said. "It's just an excuse to raise taxes."
Bingo!
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posted on
05/16/2004 8:17:52 AM PDT
by
jocon307
(The dems don't get it, the American people do.)
To: Leisler
But wait - I thought revenues from the cigarette shakedown had declined because 100,000 New Yorkers had quit, proving the success of the Jihad.
Now they're telling us that bootlegging's the cause, something any sentient being could have predicted.
Of course, the solution will be to raise cigarette taxes again, to pay for enforcement.
To: Cobra64
I remember that.......and I also remember they did the right thing (somewhere in Canada) and lowered the tax.....amazingly revenue increased after that move.
The hypocricies of government never cease to amaze me. they insist that raising cig taxes gets folks to quit smoking......then, when they don't get the projected revenue from said increase they start screaming because they are the ones that turned otherwise law-abiding citizens into criminals.
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posted on
05/16/2004 8:21:49 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my second hand smoke.)
To: keithtoo
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posted on
05/16/2004 8:23:00 AM PDT
by
cyborg
To: keithtoo
You know, most of the time I'm a law-and-order type, but in this instance. That's usually the way it works. Must drive our Congresscritters crazy.
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posted on
05/16/2004 8:25:07 AM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: Leisler
""The Daily News sent a crew of Columbia University journalism students to investigate. They found bootlegging thriving across the city, an underground economy that robs the city of tens of millions of dollars in revenue each year.""
Robs them?
Good!
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posted on
05/16/2004 8:33:42 AM PDT
by
US_MilitaryRules
(I'll donate to the RNC after the nuclear annillation of a few Middle East countries!)
To: cyborg
I am working on re-shipping from a neutral state to avoid the forcing of Indian web sites to divulge their customer lists.
There is nothing that the mind of man can devise that the mind of man can't circumvent.
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posted on
05/16/2004 8:37:50 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(I don't do diplomacy either.)
To: Publius6961
As sure a new dollar bill comes out, so does the counterfeit hehehehe
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posted on
05/16/2004 8:38:32 AM PDT
by
cyborg
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