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| #1 Posted on 1.7.02 1319.32 Reposted on: 1.7.09 1320.20 | Correct me if I'm wrong but with the new cigarette tax taking effect today in NYC, wouldn't it just be cheaper to buy weed ??? Promote this thread! | | hayabusa
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| #2 Posted on 1.7.02 1323.59 Reposted on: 1.7.09 1324.47 | Who is to blame for this stupid tax. | Papercuts!
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| #3 Posted on 1.7.02 1346.32 Reposted on: 1.7.09 1347.43 | Originally posted by hayabusa Who is to blame for this stupid tax.
Is that a question? Or are you claiming Jim Neidhardt is responsible? If it's the former, it's the voting populace of NYC and your sentence should have ended in a question mark. If it's the latter, it's doubtful because he's a Canadian citizen.
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| #4 Posted on 1.7.02 1351.28 Reposted on: 1.7.09 1354.26 |
Originally posted by Papercuts!
Originally posted by hayabusa Who is to blame for this stupid tax.
Is that a question? Or are you claiming Jim Neidhardt is responsible? If it's the latter, it's the voting populace of NYC and your sentence should have ended in a question mark. If it's the former, it's doubtful because he's a Canadian citizen.
I knew it, those Canadians always trying to mess with us. I bet Bruce Hart is in on this too. | Scar
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| #5 Posted on 1.7.02 1538.33 Reposted on: 1.7.09 1541.19 | $8.15 here, and $6.75 on the reserve. | Ruby Trax
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| #6 Posted on 1.7.02 1727.05 Reposted on: 1.7.09 1729.10 | $8.15 here, and $6.75 on the reserve.
Uhh but that's fake Canadian play money.
I shelled out $7.50 today (that's approx. $37.98 Canadian) and I have to say I *LOVE LOVE LOVE* this new tax because it means that I will cease with the cigarettes FOREVER. Unless I am either really drunk or in a state where they're not so pricey. | pieman
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| #7 Posted on 1.7.02 1749.24 Reposted on: 1.7.09 1759.01 | This kind of tax is just what some folks need to kick the cancer stick habit! | PinkSkunk
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| #8 Posted on 1.7.02 2035.54 Reposted on: 1.7.09 2040.05 |
Originally posted by pieman This kind of tax is just what some folks need to kick the cancer stick habit!
Too bad the tax is relied on to provide funds for government. It's wierd, really. Seems like a way to get people to stop smoking, only to find out that the funds from the tax allows funding to other government agencies and projects. So they have to raise the tax and hope people don't stop smoking to get the funds. Then again, that's how I see it. | Ruby Trax
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| #9 Posted on 1.7.02 2044.35 Reposted on: 1.7.09 2047.08 | Seems like a way to get people to stop smoking, only to find out that the funds from the tax allows funding to other government agencies and projects.
Plenty of people are going to keep paying the tax in order to keep smoking, though, so they might as well wring money out of addicts who are willing to cough it up (OH HO HO). On the other hand, the huge tax hike provides great incentive for people to quit. Everybody wins! Including petty thieves and organized criminals who can make a mint off selling cartons that "fell off" trucks or whatever, but that's a whole sector of the business world I don't really understand. | Zeruel
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| #10 Posted on 1.7.02 2048.29 Reposted on: 1.7.09 2059.02 | Originally posted by bitchfactor Seems like a way to get people to stop smoking, only to find out that the funds from the tax allows funding to other government agencies and projects.
Plenty of people are going to keep paying the tax in order to keep smoking, though, so they might as well wring money out of addicts who are willing to cough it up (OH HO HO). On the other hand, the huge tax hike provides great incentive for people to quit. Everybody wins! Including petty thieves and organized criminals who can make a mint off selling cartons that "fell off" trucks or whatever, but that's a whole sector of the business world I don't really understand.
that stuff is big here in the dc area
MD has a big Cig tax, and there is a small one in VA, so people buy them by the truck load and haul them to MD..and it is illegal to do that
unless you have the proper permits to import the cigs, then you'd have to pay the cig tax upfront...
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| #11 Posted on 2.7.02 0032.23 Reposted on: 2.7.09 0034.52 | Maybe it'll convince more people to bite the bullet and you know, take up a habit that isn't potentially lethal.
I recommend chewing gum. 25 cents will buy you a pack of five sticks of chewing gum here in the U.S. For about a buck, you'll get something like 20.
It won't give you lung cancer, it'll freshen your breath, and some gum is actually good for you. | Fuzzy Logic
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| #12 Posted on 2.7.02 0119.09 Reposted on: 2.7.09 0121.02 | As long as you don't chew the junk that's sweetened with aspartame (or whichever of them non-sugar sweeteners it is...), since it causes brain tumours. | Oliver
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| #13 Posted on 2.7.02 1121.09 Reposted on: 2.7.09 1129.06 | Wouldn't it be nice to see the funds raised from the added cigarette taxes go to programs to kick the habit?
Cigarettes go for about $8.00 a pack here since the provincial government raised the price.
Thank God I don't smoke...i can't really afford to! | RYDER FAKIN
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| #14 Posted on 2.7.02 1314.34 Reposted on: 2.7.09 1315.31 | From PageSix.com…
Bronx-born comic George Carlin told us he wasn't sure if the tax hike was good or bad, but added, "I do think they should tax fat people for the room they take up."
Yeah, like the government could get away with excessive taxation on a lifestyle choice.
SOX says: “Wouldn't it be nice to see the funds raised from the added cigarette taxes go to programs to kick the habit?”
No. If the non-smokers want everyone to quit so bad let THEM foot the bill. And seeing as I only pay about $25 bucks a carton, starting immediately I will increase my daily intake by a pack and a half to share in the pain of all New Yawkers.
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Celebrating seventeen years of smoking unfiltered Camels and damn proud of it. | OlFuzzyBastard
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| #15 Posted on 2.7.02 1347.52 Reposted on: 2.7.09 1359.01 | I've said it before and I'll say it again - Carlin is God. | Y2Disco
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| #16 Posted on 2.7.02 1411.39 Reposted on: 2.7.09 1421.42 |
Originally posted by SOK Wouldn't it be nice to see the funds raised from the added cigarette taxes go to programs to kick the habit?
Cigarettes go for about $8.00 a pack here since the provincial government raised the price.
Thank God I don't smoke...i can't really afford to!
The September 4th issue of Time Magazine had and column (sort-of) on this. To paraphrase, in 1998, 46 states settled their claims against 'Big Tobacco' for $206 billion. They promised to allot most of that toward antismoking programs and such, but only 5% has been used toward that. It goes on to discuss a North Carolina group (Golden Long-Term Economic Advancement Foundation...pah) established by the NC General Assembly, which was created to distribute half the state's settlement money. $15,000 went towards a tobacco history video, and $400,000 for water and sewer engineering to attract a tobacco-processing plant.
I love the quote. "'This is a perfectly allowable use of the funds,' says John Gessaman, president of the economic-development corporation that applied for the grant. It may be perfectly legal, but then again, so is smoking." | Socks
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| #17 Posted on 2.7.02 2027.47 Reposted on: 2.7.09 2029.10 |
Originally posted by bitchfactor $8.15 here, and $6.75 on the reserve.
Uhh but that's fake Canadian play money.
I shelled out $7.50 today (that's approx. $37.98 Canadian) .
hahah.
Believe it or not, our "new" 5 dollar bill has hockey players on it. | astrobstrd
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| #18 Posted on 3.7.02 0350.46 Reposted on: 3.7.09 0351.24 |
Originally posted by ekedolphin Maybe it'll convince more people to bite the bullet and you know, take up a habit that isn't potentially lethal.
I recommend chewing gum. 25 cents will buy you a pack of five sticks of chewing gum here in the U.S. For about a buck, you'll get something like 20.
It won't give you lung cancer, it'll freshen your breath, and some gum is actually good for you.
Wait a minute...YOU'RE A CHEWLIES GUM REP! | ekedolphin
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| #19 Posted on 6.7.02 0517.16 Reposted on: 6.7.09 0524.22 | Haha, no, I'm a customer service representative at Blockbuster.
We sell gum in our store, though, so... who knows?
If I can be serious for a minute, though-- I'm very partial to Dentyne Ice for some reason. | Fuzzy Logic
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| #20 Posted on 6.7.02 2308.36 Reposted on: 6.7.09 2315.25 | ekedolphin, I would say that's because most of the flavours are good (I'm a cinnamin and pepper mint person meself), and they dont' lose their taste in 2 minutes.
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