[Freedom4US]

What a bunch of morons. The low level nazis are always the worst. Taxes were already paid at the point of purchase, nice try though. When taxes are raised too high, then the black market takes over. Really tugs at your heart strings that they are going to get LESS revenue because of their confiscatory tax.

[jonascord]

Ten years ago, the Canadian Socialist government, in an proclaimed effort to save money spent on freebie health care, jacked up taxes on cigarettes to $4.00 a pack. There was an immediate explosion of smuggled American cigarettes from the US. After two years, it finally dawned on the Canadians that not only were they losing $4 BILLION in tax revenues yearly, the Mounties had to spend all it's time arresting every convenience store and gas station owner within 50 miles of the border, and all the major Canadian cigarette wholesalers were going broke. Naturally, the Health Nazies claimed that falling sales indicated that fewer people were smoking...

[sawsalimb]

The low level nazis are always the worst

To use a phrase that I first saw in a book by the great P.J.O'Rourke,

"The beauty of a well designed fascist state is that it ensures that every pissant has an anthill to piss from."(Or something very close to that,anyway. I'm too busy puffing away at the moment to go to the bookshelf and dig out the book.)