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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. [history]

The Post's handy chart on where to buy cheap cigarettes was an invitation to break the law, but buyers beware ("Mike's in a rush for cig-tax hike," June 26).

The Department of Finance, which administers the cigarette tax, is serious about nailing tax cheats. And we're good at it, too - just ask the smugglers and tax-stamp counterfeiters we nabbed back in April, the result of two sting operations we coordinated with law-enforcement officials from the Carolinas all the way to New York.


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To: gridlock
Turns out it's all about feeding the machine.

Bloomberg didn't even bother to spin the decision to raise parking fines from $55 to $110 (and the fine doubles if you don't pay your ticket within ten days). I was looking forward to hearing how many lives that was going to save.

21 posted on 07/11/2002 1:29:46 PM PDT by hellinahandcart
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To: Dog Gone
What a gret idea! She could have them tested to see if the tax had been paid on them.
22 posted on 07/11/2002 1:31:01 PM PDT by D.P.Roberts
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To: gridlock
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!

Good point and rational there Gridlock. You bring out a very good point...

23 posted on 07/11/2002 1:31:10 PM PDT by LowOiL
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To: dighton
Yes.

Clintonite, NY Dem machine tool, academic poseur.

24 posted on 07/11/2002 1:31:31 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker
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To: dead
I don't understand how NYC will know if you buy more than the allotted amount off the Internet.

If you order fifty cartons in ten boxes, shipped through the US Mail, does the City have the right to open the mail in order to inspect the contents? Are local m unicipalities allowed to tamper with the US mail?

25 posted on 07/11/2002 1:32:20 PM PDT by Maceman
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To: gridlock
Is it any wonder why liberals hate us so much? We see right through them.
26 posted on 07/11/2002 1:32:51 PM PDT by billhilly
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To: dead
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.

Smokers, this revenue is YOUR responsibility!

27 posted on 07/11/2002 1:33:28 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: dead
New Yorkers lost an estimated $40 million in uncollected tax revenue

That's my favorite line. How can you lose something you never had in the first place???

28 posted on 07/11/2002 1:36:21 PM PDT by been_lurking
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To: SheLion
over here
29 posted on 07/11/2002 1:37:15 PM PDT by ozone1
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To: dighton
So while Guiliani was in charge she was history. Thanks for the link.
30 posted on 07/11/2002 1:37:22 PM PDT by JoeSixPack1
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To: dead
I don't understand why they must go through all these games and motions to take other people's money. They should be honest and simply hire a bunch of scary looking characters, arm them with clubs and machetes and have them go door to door, simply taking things from people and keep doing that until the gov't gets whatever it is it needs.
31 posted on 07/11/2002 1:37:37 PM PDT by A Vast RightWing Conspirator
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To: Drew68; Just another Joe; Gabz; SheLion
Get a load of this one all you criminal smokers.
32 posted on 07/11/2002 1:38:48 PM PDT by Movemout
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To: Maceman
I don't understand how NYC will know if you buy more than the allotted amount off the Internet.

They can't know. It seems to me the only way you can get in trouble is if you bring a van load of cigarettes back from North Carolina and sell them to your friends. And one of your friends turns out to be a snitch or a "narc."

33 posted on 07/11/2002 1:39:08 PM PDT by 07055
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To: 07055
it's done in the WoD all the time -- pretty soon it'll start in the WoT. Wonder how long it'll be 'till the first kid turns in his parents?
34 posted on 07/11/2002 1:40:38 PM PDT by WindMinstrel
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To: WindMinstrel
Hey! Good point. I love pissing off regulators. I take every opportunity to do so myself! Whadduyouknow a fellow agitator at FR. Amazing!
35 posted on 07/11/2002 1:41:09 PM PDT by Sunshine Sister
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To: MarkL
That stinks. Last time I looked this was a free country and we are not required to shop only in our city or state. I'd be glad to point that out to that dufus!
36 posted on 07/11/2002 1:45:53 PM PDT by Sunshine Sister
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To: been_lurking
That's my favorite line. How can you lose something you never had in the first place???

She is going to teach math at Author Anderson.

37 posted on 07/11/2002 1:47:45 PM PDT by Blue Screen of Death
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To: Catspaw
I suppose the next step is going to be raiding smoker's houses to find out if they paid the cig tax, huh?

Yes, it is. And don't you DARE put in a secret room in your house to hide those cigarettes in. Whether there are cigarettes in there or not we'll know that's what its for and you'll go up the river without a smoke.

38 posted on 07/11/2002 1:48:17 PM PDT by Just another Joe
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To: dead
Anybody have an e-address for Martha? She might get a kick out of reading this thread.
39 posted on 07/11/2002 1:48:34 PM PDT by D.P.Roberts
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To: Blue Screen of Death
Or Solomon Barney Frank.
40 posted on 07/11/2002 1:50:05 PM PDT by Dakmar
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