Cigarette tax soars; will cheating, too? ("All hell is going to break loose.")

Seattle Times ^ | 11/26/01 | Peter Lewis

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

so what the heck, let's rape and pillage another industry just like the liberals want.

How will the liberals exist without the spending. Tax rates will be reduced.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

You can't inhale those!

[Clandestine]

Republican answer = = conservative answer + "However, we don't want to seem extreme or we might not get releected, so what the heck, let's rape and pillage another industry just like the liberals want."

Republican answer = Let's rape and pillage MORE industries than the liberals so we can be MORE compassionate!

[Petronski]

HOLY COW!

[pcl]

I live in California where taxes have put the average price of carton of brand name cigarette at over $50 a carton. I have not bought cigarettes in California in over three years. I buy my cigarettes off the internet. The everage price is less than $25 a carton.

The internet is wonderful!

[mlocher]

so what IS the next industry to go? will it be beef? you know, pit the herbivores against the carnivores and tax the life out of meat ($3/pound) and claim that the money will go to research of heart disease? or research to find a cure for mad cow's disease?

[sailrabbit]

"I live in California where taxes have put the average price..."

You can thank rob reiner for that in CA.. boycott meathead

[FormerLib]

Odd, some folks would argue that there won't be any smuggling or black market trafficing (with the attending violence when competion for those markets starts to build) of legal products. But sure as there are bootleggers in wet counties, that just isn't so.

[pcl]

You can thank rob reiner for that in CA.. boycott meathead

Gladly. Tell me more. How can I boycott this reiner jerk. I do not know who he is.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

It already exists. I was joking earlier about the need to increase our airport security forces to combat this situation.

[Fraulein]

TaxMeat.com

[Max McGarrity]

Don't go to his movies and miss no chance to slam him in the press. Oh, yeah, and either buy your tobacco products online, out of state, or make your own. Don't give the dork any more money to fritter away.

[Wolfie]

Un-taxed cigarettes aren't legal products.

[Fraulein]

Every time the Edgewood woman and Jeff cheat, they are committing a gross misdemeanor that is technically punishable by a $5,000 fine and a year in jail, plus civil penalties.

I don't understand. It's illegal to buy smokes from the tribal and online shops?

[FormerLib]

Un-taxed cigarettes aren't legal products.

Yes, but the taxed ones are. In this particular case, the only reason why one would prefer the untaxed ones are to save money.

[Wolfie]

Obviously. That's where the lawbreakers who engage in smuggling for the black market come into play.

[Fraulein]

HERE is some information on Rob Weiner.

By the way, Reiner also made that god-awful liberal movie, "The American President."

[Hank Rearden]

I love this! Undermining Big Mommy Government is always a good thing, especially when you get to strangle their income flow by doing so.

Almost makes me want to take up smoking, just to buy them Injun ciggies.

[Doctor Stochastic]

It's amazing how addicts act when the cost of a fix goes up.

[Fred Mertz]

Hey man, freepmail me where I can get cigs cheap by the case(wink wink). I need friends too.

BTW, I'm paying $11.12 per carton for these horsesh## things I'm smoking these days. Can you do better than that price?