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Cigarette tax has smokers fuming
The Times ^
| July 3, 2003
| TRACEY L. REGAN
Posted on 07/03/2003 7:25:50 PM PDT by Just another Joe
Edited on 07/06/2004 6:39:02 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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"Ridiculous! Ridiculous!" fumed Harry Desai, a convenience store owner in Trenton incensed by the latest cigarette tax increase that has the price of some brands he sells soaring to more than $6 a pack.
"They're going to get the business over there," said Desai, the owner of the Robert Lewis Store on State Street, waving vaguely toward Pennsylvania. "I want to go over there myself. I don't blame people."
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Miscellaneous; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: butts; niconazi; pufflist; smoke; smoking; taxes
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To: M0sby
I don't smoke, but this really angers me. I'm sick of gov't's social engineering.
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posted on
07/03/2003 9:15:49 PM PDT
by
umgud
(gov't has more money than it needs, but never as much as it wants)
To: Just another Joe
This is the Dimrats, and unfortunately the governments answer to everything. Taxing it instead of people taking responsibility for their own actions.
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posted on
07/03/2003 9:42:20 PM PDT
by
vpintheak
(Our Liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain!)
To: Just another Joe
Taxes, societal ostracization, hatred - all aimed at demonization of smokers. State sanctioned discrimination and legal hate crimes.
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07/04/2003 5:49:23 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers = personification of everything wrong in this country)
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