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Maine getting share of tobacco settlement
boston.com ^ | 4-15-03

Posted on 04/16/2003 5:59:34 AM PDT by SheLion

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:09:36 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) Maine is getting its $20 million share of Philip Morris USA tobacco settlement money, which came into question as a result of a court case in Illinois, Attorney General G. Steven Rowe said.

At stake for Maine was about half of Philip Morris's $40 million payment to Maine as part of a 1998 tobacco settlement. Rowe said Monday he received assurances that the company was going to make its payment on schedule Tuesday.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: antismokers; bans; butts; cigarettes; individualliberty; niconazis; philipmorris; prohibitionists; pufflist; smokingbans; taxes; tobacco
Which means: AG Rowe is supporting the use of the Tobacco Settlement money being used for the various race tracks around Maine AND the sponsoring of several race teams!

Oh sure, AG, the crooked dealings against adult smokers shall continue on. Bet you sleep great at night now, too, don't you!

Our Chicken AG doesn't even have an email address. I guess he doesn't want the backlash! eh?

1 posted on 04/16/2003 5:59:34 AM PDT by SheLion
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To: *puff_list; Just another Joe; Great Dane; Max McGarrity; Tumbleweed_Connection; Madame Dufarge; ...
Maine: another state putting the lawmakers on their knees because they are afraid of being cut off from their gluttony share of the MSA!
2 posted on 04/16/2003 6:01:54 AM PDT by SheLion
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To: SheLion
A government greed bump to ya SL!
3 posted on 04/16/2003 6:03:50 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: SheLion
By the time the tobacco revolt comes about the states budget will probably BE tobacco taxes and the MSA settlement.
4 posted on 04/16/2003 6:21:03 AM PDT by Just another Joe (FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: SheLion
No wonder MZ. Snow doesn't want a tax cut. Her vote is against my "FREEDOM" yet I don't live in her state.
5 posted on 04/16/2003 6:24:26 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: facedown
A government greed bump to ya SL!

What burns me is: the Tobacco Company's fell to their knees in front of the Attorney General's, and once that money started pouring into the states, the lawmakers were overwhelmed over all that big money!

They gave some to the Boards of Health and then used most of it, as we all know, to balance their budgets, build big expensive golf courses, plant fancy gardens (yes, in southern Maine, a woman heads up the planting of gardens around town from the Tobacco Settlement Money!

And they were supposed to use the money for education and to pay for any sick smokers should there BE any! But the money in the hands of the Boards of Health is just putting more control, restrictions and higher taxes on adults who choose to smoke a legal product.

See why the lawmakers in the state won't BAN TOBACCO? heh! We all know why not and we all know what is going on with this money.

6 posted on 04/16/2003 7:00:24 AM PDT by SheLion
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To: Just mythoughts
Snow doesn't want a tax cut. Her vote is against my "FREEDOM" yet I don't live in her state.

It's disgusting! She's the biggest RINO of them all!

7 posted on 04/16/2003 7:02:20 AM PDT by SheLion
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To: SheLion
"It's disgusting" Agreed.

Is she stupid, or a socialist?

Is the economy so good in Maine that they don't need a tax cut?

Who does she carry water for?

8 posted on 04/16/2003 7:07:37 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Just mythoughts
Who does she carry water for?

Herself? The Somali's in Lewiston? God only knows.

9 posted on 04/16/2003 7:27:33 AM PDT by SheLion
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To: Just mythoughts; SheLion
Is she stupid, or a socialist?

She is stupid and socialist.

Is the economy so good in Maine that they don't need a tax cut?

Businesses are fleeing Maine in droves, so they are eroding what little tax base we had. Maine is the second highest taxed state per capita in the country with something like the third or fourth lowest income per capita.

It is almost a completely one party state down in Augusta and our two RINO senators are among the stupidist people you'd ever have the displeasure of meeting.

10 posted on 04/16/2003 8:05:14 AM PDT by metesky (My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can)
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To: SheLion
Which means: AG Rowe is supporting the use of the Tobacco Settlement money being used for the various race tracks around Maine AND the sponsoring of several race teams!

Strange how they never think of the air polution spewed by race tracks.

11 posted on 04/16/2003 8:08:24 AM PDT by Great Dane
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To: metesky
This does make sense in the "socialist" belief of "spreading the pain".

Sounds like a "deal" was cut to divert tax dollars to Maine for a vote against tax cuts.

What will they do when the rest of the country becomes a "Maine"?

Prayers for those in Maine who have a "FREE" mind.
12 posted on 04/16/2003 8:16:55 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Great Dane
Strange how they never think of the air polution spewed by race tracks.

You got it! The tracks are dirty, dusty and full of fumes. I know! I worked at the one up here for over 10 years. Dirtiest job I ever had (at the Pit Gate), but I loved it!

But your right! MY GOD DON'T SMOKE! Breath ALL you want but MY GOD DON'T SMOKE. Nuts, isn't it!

And to think that the smokers in Maine are paying for this abuse through the taxes they pay on their cigarettes just pisses me off all the more.

13 posted on 04/16/2003 9:21:25 AM PDT by SheLion
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To: SheLion
Maine might be getting a share of the tobacco settlement, but that's all it will be getting a share of, until its collective head gets out of its butt, so to speak.
14 posted on 04/16/2003 2:15:54 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: SheLion
Do you remember a couple of weeks ago, somewhere in Montana....I think, 'THEY' claimed heart attacks went down by 70% as soon as their ban took effect, seems a judge overturned the law....for now, and immidiately the heart attacks soared to it's old high, how can these people even think they have any credibility.?

Read this in my paper the other day.

15 posted on 04/16/2003 4:46:54 PM PDT by Great Dane
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To: metesky
Businesses are fleeing Maine in droves, so they are eroding what little tax base we had.

I have to say what the hell is going on in Maine? Georgia Pacific just closed down their plant in Old Town Maine and transfered the operation to upstate New York in Plattsburgh

When New York is a more desirable location for buisness than your state you know something is very wrong.

16 posted on 04/16/2003 7:56:52 PM PDT by qam1 (Upstate New York secede from Downstate Now!!)
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