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To: TheSentry

So call “sin” taxes such as this will go unnoticed by the masses. You will get no sympathy.


3 posted on 03/08/2009 3:42:16 AM PDT by balls (I have seen the enemy and it is Hussein 0)
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To: balls

>>So call “sin” taxes such as this will go unnoticed by the masses. You will get no sympathy.<<

Until the sinners are gone. Then who will pay?


4 posted on 03/08/2009 3:45:58 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: balls
They never learn:

After Canada raised its tax on cigarettes sharply, it became so highly profitable to smuggle cigarettes into the country that tax revenues dropped. The high tax promoted smuggling and the government lost all the taxes on the smuggled cigarettes.

As soon as Canada lowered its tax on cigarettes, bootlegging dropped and tax revenues increased.

http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/Controversies/20080227114336.html

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In the UK, many people now illegally import cigarettes, or buy those illegally imported, due to the increasing tax. A packet is less than half the price in some other countries, making illegal importers a large profit, while still providing comparatively very cheap cigarettes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette

17 posted on 03/08/2009 6:54:15 AM PDT by Ken H
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