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State to start cracking down on Internet smokes sales
NewsDay.com ^
| June 15, 2003
| MICHAEL GORMLEY
Posted on 06/16/2003 12:59:25 PM PDT by microgood
ALBANY, N.Y. -- When Audrey Silk sees smokers buying a pack of cigarettes at a convenience store, she rushes over to confront them:
"Why are you buying that here?" she asks.
"Oh,' they tell me, `I always buy from the Indians, I just ran out,"' Silk said. "I don't know anybody who buys cigarettes from the corner store ... Me? I make sure I never run out."
Smokers like Silk, of New York City, say they still won't run out when the state on Wednesday begins to enforce a ban on Internet cigarette sales. The ban is aimed at the Internet retailers, sovereign and tax-free Indian reservations that have long eluded the state's reach as well as the trucking firms they use. The prize would be hundreds of millions of dollars a year in tax revenue lost in Internet sales for a state struggling with a $12 billion deficit.
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KEYWORDS: internet; pufflist; tobacco
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To: Taxman
My husband and I (both native NYers) will be fleeing this state in about 6 years -- as soon as he can retire.
We will sell our house for an obscene profit, take the money, and purchase another home -- probably the house of my dreams. This purchase will take place somewhere other than NY. (Virginia's looking good to me.)
And when we go, so will our parents (they will want to be near the kids).
So yes, others are leaving as well. Six years can't go fast enough for me.
Regards,
To: lockjaw02
"At the rate they're going, they'll have less representation in the House than Wyoming after the 2020 census! ;)" Works for me!
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posted on
06/16/2003 6:36:29 PM PDT
by
Taxman
To: VermiciousKnid
As a native Virginian, I can tell you that it is a fine place to live. So far, taxes aren't too bad, and we can still smoke, iffen we gottem.
HST, there are other equally good states to live in down thisaway, but y'all best start larnin' yo southren accent rat now! A little advance practice will keep you FRom drawin' unwanted "DamYankee" attention to yo'self! LOL! :-)
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posted on
06/16/2003 6:45:15 PM PDT
by
Taxman
To: KS Flyover
Yet another reason to stuff your own.
Screw the tax and spend ba$tards, of ANY political persuasion.
Get your loose tobacco, your tubes, your injection machine, and smoke 'em if you've stuffed 'em.
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06/16/2003 6:52:54 PM PDT
by
Just another Joe
(FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: Taxman
Not to worry, Taxman...I'll fit right in down there. I have miraculously been spared the curse of the New York accent (though I certainly can do a wicked one if I want to).
Be that as it may, I KNOW that somehow I am a country girl trapped in a city girl's body. When I was a kid, my family would spend the summer at my grandparents' cottage on a lake in rural Pennsylvania. Every single time we left there, I cried inconsolably from the moment we turned off the dirt road at the lake until hours after we arrived back home in NYC. I never wanted to leave, and when I take my own kids up there in the summers now, I still get misty-eyed on the way back home.
I'll fit right in, you'll see -- I'll charm 'em with my sparkling personality and my decidedly UN-Damnyankee attitude. (Heck, I'm not even a Yankee fan -- I prefer to torture myself by being a Met fan instead).
Regards,
To: microgood
One wonders how much all this enforcement will cost
California did that.
Now, smoke smugglers are making a killing.
Black market smokes are going for less than half of retail.
They'll have to raise taxes for a tobacco task force to combat the problem!
LMAO!!!
To: VermiciousKnid
LOL!
I expect y'all will fit rat in, ma'am!
Glad you saw the humor in my post, BTW. Some DamnYankees are right sensitive, y'know!
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posted on
06/16/2003 7:52:00 PM PDT
by
Taxman
To: Just another Joe
Thass right, Joe. And, FWIIW, loose tobacco is not taxed very heavily
and the damn lawyers do not get a penny from loose tobacco sales.
I have a machine, tobacco and tubes for the occasional emergency when I have run out and can't get to JRs in North Carolina for cheap smokes.
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posted on
06/16/2003 7:55:37 PM PDT
by
Taxman
To: KBtry4-11
Exactly, they're for the little guy only when it brings additional power or money. The rest is hot air.
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posted on
06/16/2003 9:44:31 PM PDT
by
SoDak
To: microgood
Its unenforceable. Look for a black market in cigarette smuggling. Its bound to happen and nothing would give me more perverse pleasure than to see the Democrats and tax happy RINOs in Albany get a good kick in their balls!
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posted on
06/16/2003 9:50:20 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
Look for a black market in cigarette smuggling.It won't be hard to find.
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06/17/2003 11:19:59 AM PDT
by
Just another Joe
(FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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