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Cheap Cig Buyers Beware (hysterical, threatening bleating from enraged tax-collector)
NY Post ^
| July 10, 2002
| Martha E. StarkRavingMad
Posted on 07/11/2002 1:13:11 PM PDT by dead
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:07:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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You can almost smell the policy-wonk rage coming off this letter.
How dare the Post tell people how to avoid paying Martha's precious tax. Government has a God-given right to any and all peoples money, so the government can save them from themselves.
Shes probably frustrated that the law doesnt allow her to shut down the newspaper. Yet.
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posted on
07/11/2002 1:13:11 PM PDT
by
dead
To: dead
How can she complain that smokers don't pay the tax? After all you paid tax somewhere didn't you? Sounds like more histronics from power hungary little twerp.
To: dead
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posted on
07/11/2002 1:19:49 PM PDT
by
dighton
To: dead
Dear Martha:
Kiss off, honey. A lot of your supporters will be bringing in truckloads. Why do you think the tax was raised? For you? Ha, ha,ha,ha,ha!
To: dead
This leaves no further room for pretense that there are public "servants."
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posted on
07/11/2002 1:21:48 PM PDT
by
billhilly
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To: dead
We're stepping up enforcement because too many lives and too much money is at stake. New Yorkers lost an estimated $40 million in uncollected tax revenue last year alone - revenue that could have been used to support safety, education and other vital services during these tough budget times. I thought the tax was about discouraging smoking, since it's dangerous and all. Turns out it's all about feeding the machine. Who knew!
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posted on
07/11/2002 1:23:08 PM PDT
by
gridlock
To: dead
Yeah, sure, lady. And all of us who buy products over the internet to avoid the sales tax, need to remember to voluntarily send the sales tax we should have paid directly to our states.
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posted on
07/11/2002 1:24:15 PM PDT
by
07055
To: dead
In New York City, you are entitled to a jury trial for a misdemeanor. The only difference is that there are six jurors instead of twelve. Martha, shall we start voir dire? OK, the defendent's attorney will now question the first potential juror....
To: dead
Oh, this is so precious. Ol' Martha must think being cute is going to coerce people into paying that tax. Uh nyuh.
I suppose the next step is going to be raiding smoker's houses to find out if they paid the cig tax, huh?
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posted on
07/11/2002 1:25:07 PM PDT
by
Catspaw
To: dighton
Thanks for the link. That resume told me all I need to know about Martha.
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posted on
07/11/2002 1:25:32 PM PDT
by
dead
To: Sunshine Sister
If there's one thing that makes me happy it's a pissed-off tax collector -- that's not pissed off at me, of course.
To: dead
Don't laugh... New Jersey doesn't (or didn't) have sales tax on clothing, and there were a number of cases where NY sent "spys" to NJ shopping malls, to jot down the license numbers of NY residents that they considered to be "tax cheats," and they sent threatening letters to them!
Mark
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posted on
07/11/2002 1:26:23 PM PDT
by
MarkL
To: dead
So it goes. I would guess that several million Americans have now been moved into the criminal class. We all must break any number of obscure laws every day just going about our daily lives. As the old Chinese curse says:
"May you live in interesting times and come to the attention of important people."
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posted on
07/11/2002 1:26:27 PM PDT
by
Movemout
To: dead
It would be tragic if a campaign was begun to mail her envelopes full of stinky illegal cigarette butts.
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posted on
07/11/2002 1:27:19 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: dead
New York Cityites need to start a trend: New York Tobacco Party with a strong resemblance to an event a few years ago called the Boston Tea Party.
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posted on
07/11/2002 1:27:42 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: Movemout
So it goes. I would guess that several million Americans have now been moved into the criminal class. We all must break any number of obscure laws every day just going about our daily lives "Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We *want* them broken....There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with." -- Ayn Rand, _Atlas Shrugged , Ch. III, "White Blackmail"
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posted on
07/11/2002 1:28:44 PM PDT
by
07055
To: dead
You can almost smell the policy-wonk rage coming off this letter. Nothing pisses off a bureaucrat more than being ignored.
To: Dog Gone
Tragic indeed. Teriffic, but tragic.
To: dead
Martha E. StarkRavingMad I like it. She kind of reminds me of Diana Moon Glampers
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posted on
07/11/2002 1:29:18 PM PDT
by
gridlock
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