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<big>Obama Signs SCHIP Law with Major Tobacco Tax Increase</big>
WWW.JOINTOGETHER.ORG ^ | Feb. 9th, 2009 | news online

Posted on 03/08/2009 3:35:04 AM PDT by TheSentry

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To: autumnraine
re: if people get too taxed, they will quit

Does that work with other addictions, like drugs? Seriously, not being a smart-ass. I have long been convinced the war on drugs is a failure. Why do we have one approach with tobacco and another with other addictive substances?

Sin taxes are a slippery slope.

21 posted on 03/08/2009 8:30:51 AM PDT by jwpjr (Sigh)
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To: Ken H

He’s forcing the entire economy to go underground. ‘mordida’ will become a way of life in the USA as it looks more and more like any other 3rd world dump every day.


22 posted on 03/08/2009 8:38:35 AM PDT by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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To: Marie
You are so right on. I have been stocking up of loose tobacco for a while now...I just might quit when I use up all the tobacco...I like smoking but hate giving the thieves in Washington or Lansing(my state) any more of my money...anyone out their that says that is a good thing for me to quit smoking I say “Bite Me”
23 posted on 03/08/2009 10:00:35 AM PDT by goat granny
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To: goat granny

We need to have a quitting party. Throw tobacco in a river. Heck, I’ll host one in September.

We’ll probably have to pay fines for polluting the water... Ho-hum.


24 posted on 03/08/2009 10:11:51 AM PDT by Marie ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Marie

We already have a quitting party. Its called the Republican Party.....If you have such a party, let me know I’ll be there with a big net fishing the tobacco out..(hope it’s menthol)


25 posted on 03/08/2009 10:29:47 AM PDT by goat granny
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To: TheSentry

Yahoo! The cigars I buy occasionally go up 40 cents apiece to provide poetry slams for crack babies, or some other worthy cause....

When are they going to levy a $20 cover charge on gay bars and a $50 fee on gay bathhouses, which will go toward AIDS research?


26 posted on 03/08/2009 11:03:53 AM PDT by Mac from Cleveland (Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again---and J. Edgar, too)
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To: TheSentry

Question #2—Since I learned in school that the noble red man introduced tobacco to the Europeans, can we sue the Indian tribes for getting us addicted?....


27 posted on 03/08/2009 11:05:11 AM PDT by Mac from Cleveland (Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again---and J. Edgar, too)
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To: Marie
"PREVENTING MY MONEY FROM GOING TO FUND THOSE *RAT B@ST@RDS* IS ALL THE MOTIVATION I’LL EVER NEED."

Since you put it that way I will have to concede to your point of view.

28 posted on 03/08/2009 3:07:32 PM PDT by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: goat granny

It’s menthol! :-)


29 posted on 03/08/2009 4:12:00 PM PDT by Marie ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Marie

Yipee, I’ll be there :O)


30 posted on 03/08/2009 4:23:52 PM PDT by goat granny
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