Cheap Cig Buyers Beware (hysterical, threatening bleating from enraged tax-collector)

NY Post ^ | July 10, 2002 | Martha E. StarkRavingMad

[Rebelbase]

"Is it any wonder why liberals hate us so much? We see right through them. "

Bump!

[Rebelbase]

"Anybody have an e-address for Martha? She might get a kick out of reading this thread."

Send a message to Martha E. Stark, Esq., Commissioner Department of Finance.......GO FOR IT!

[07055]

Larry McKee, deputy commissioner of the Indiana Department of Revenue, also said his agency isn't worried at this point about a black market in cigarettes. He said the department will monitor the amount of revenue generated by the new tax rate and will investigate if it falls well below projections.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

[Gabz]

Get a load of this one all you criminal smokers.

Nope - not me - I moved out of NYC 20 years ago.

But I understand what you mean.

I was interviewed by the NY Post a week or so ago for an article regarding alternatives to purchasing tobacco and tobacco products. I understand the article didn't quote me specifically or by name and it wasn't one that made it to their online edition.

This must be in response to that article.

[Gabz]

''It was one of the hardest things I ever did,'' he said of the cigarette tax increase, ''to put it in the budget and vote for it.''

But something had to be done to stem the tide of red ink threatening to overwhelm the budget, Cochran said.

Another legislator talking out of both sides of his mouth.

Cigarette smokers didn't cause the tide of red ink - the budget writers did. why is it that it always comes down to cigarette smokers being in charge of taking care of these things?????

Be a patriot - buy cigarettes - help the state coffers. yeah, RIGHT.

[Paulus Invictus]

This sounds a lot like the Govt. protests about all the liquor being imported and sold everywhere during Prohibition. It did not stop the illegal liquor from coming in and being sold. The illegal sales enriched the criminals, including the infamous Kennedys who used much of it to buy RAT politicians including FDR. The govt got miniscule results from all their PR, extra police and FBI efforts, not to mention all the tax money they spent tring in vain to regulate the law. Prohibition was finally repealed as uncontrollable.

Watch these asinine state laws go the same route. The Mafia and the Indian tribes must be laughing all the way to the bank.

[SheLion]

I am curious - what does a carton of Marlboro Red Box cost in your area?

They sell from $44 up to $50 dollars a carton in Maine now. The stores where you can find them for $44 dollars aren't putting on the "user tax."

[SheLion]

GO FOR IT!

THANK you SO much!!!

[Brett66]

She should change her name to Black Market Martha. They over-stepped their limits, now they'll have a black market that surpasses that created during prohibition.

[NYCVirago]

New York's Indian reservations should accept their share of the blame and pay cigarette taxes, as they do in Connecticut and other states.

What's the cigarette tax in Connecticut? I doubt it's anywhere close to the draconian taxes NYC just imposed.

[Movemout]

Ladies, Ladies! I know you are nor criminals even if the antis do not.

[dead]

bttt

[1Old Pro]

Man is she jammed up.

[WindMinstrel]

When I was in the Army I went to dispensary one day. While the doc was checking me out she asked about tobacco use, and I admitted that I used Copenhagen. I asked her why, since tobacco is dangerous, did she not order her patients to stop using it. She said it was morally wrong to issue an order that she knew would be disobeyed.

Isn't that what this tax is doing?

[headsonpikes]

This IS good news!

Keep sharpening those contradictions, Martha girl!

Keep the cannibal face of 'public need' right out front, where the children can see it plainly.