Posted on 11/10/2007 8:15:04 PM PST by Bowtie52
I don't know about you but that's how I've interpretted it all along.
Hey! Watch how you use the word "she!!!!" LOL
Same with socialized healthcare, tyrannical taxation and global warming laws. I'm right there with you...
And I firmly believe that's what it will take to drive these socialist beasts out of our nation in order to be free again.
Tell me how to tax it, I'll tell you how to make it legal.(old political mantra)
I wonder how long it will actually be until the average man looks up and decides that they can no longer bear the burden of tyrannical socialism?
I can picture a mob of angry smokers wheezing and hacking as they march up the steps of a government building, stoppping to rest at the top, and light up another cigarette before they go in. lol
Excellent, Phillip Morris is after decades closing the plant in North Carolina and moving operations to Richmond,VA.
They now also have a plant in Europe which the Europeans are so proud to have.
Each time a liberal opens his or her mouth about raising the tax on a cigarette the Europeans smiles. One day and hope you all live to see it, we all will get to stop making at least one item a piece before we die. We can stop making for example, guns, cigarettes, alcohol, bibles, constitutions and common law. all of which have been are under attack in the USA
Here in Michigan they stopped using that worn out line a couple of increases ago.
When our governor approved the last cigarette tax hike she at least had the honesty to say that it was to help fund the overspent, underfunded state budget.........
What a lot of folks don't think about is that if a person is unemployed, he can't pay any state income taxes......That's why they just passed the latest "Service Tax" increase aimed at businesses but ultimately paid by the consumer. Even people with no incomes still have to purchase something......
This is the Horsehead Nebula:
This issue of raising cigaratte taxes
And this is a rat with a cigar:
You write funny!
Can't stand the high taxes?
Afraid to order off of the Internet?
Then start rolling your own!!! I find everything but the machine downtown at the local Smoke Shop. Also, Rite Aid and grocery stores also sell the bags of tobacco and the filtered tubes.
I roll out a beautiful carton for a little under $8 dollars. Premiums in my state are now up to $45-$50 a carton. Can you imagine the money I have saved over the past 4 years since I now roll my own? It's mind boggling.
under $50.00
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"Wheezing and hacking????"
I have smoked over 30 years and I don't "wheeze and hack"
After Hurricane Wilma ripped off 90% of the roofs in our neighborhood in 2005, I passed around a box of Partagas Cubanos I had received as a "gift" a while before. Comfort smokes...we all gathered around and lit up and puffed for about an hour or so. Just looking at the debris.
It bonded us.
We spent that week helping each other clear our yards and putting tarps up or more major repairs to roofs here and there.
That was a good smoke that we all still remember.
May sound silly, but it was just one of those moments when a good smoke really helped.
Good, let them ban it. The lies and social engineering the fascists use now are unbearable and anathema to a free country. If it's so horrible just ban it and get it overwith.
LOL! Not me. I’m no aze and certainly not a smart one. ;^)
It doesn't sound silly at all.
There's a reason that people don't go around sticking pins in their eyes, but do have a smoke.
I can't wrap my mind around a group of people (anti-smoking fanatics) who want to burrow so deeply into the psyches and minutiae of others' lives.
Their demands have been conceded to far beyond reason and yet they go on shrieking.
The issue's never been about smoking, but about how people behave in a free and civil society.
The whole "smoking" issue is a microcosm of how the tyranny of the majority spreads like a cancer.
But if it makes you feel better, will this help:
I can picture a mob of angry [SheLion] smokers wheezing and hacking
and have [known] plenty of smokers. Doh!
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