Federal Cigarette Tax Going Up

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Jim Hayden wrote:

Tobacco is indigenous to this country so why not grow your own and save yourself a whole lot of money.

Rogue Government wrote:

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Jim, that is easier said than done...A lot of people don't live on or have farmland and their back yards are big enough...The government is not going to get the revenue they thought from this taxation on cigarettes, a lot of people are going to either quit, buy them out of a trunk of a car or go to the nearest Indian reservation...Either way it's going to backfire on them, and of course many of those 43 million smokers vote, so whomever voted for these taxes are going to come up quite a few million votes short when its election time...

Jim Hayden wrote:

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Unlike pot tobacco does not require a lot of land to grow. A few plants and that is all it takes to grow enough for one person for an entire year.
However like you say most smokers will be forced to buy their smoke from the Indians or on the black market.

Upset Citizen wrote:

I am a smoker, I think this tax increase is rediculous. Why don't they go after the drinkers? The smokers are always getting all the attention. The government needs to focus more attention on the drinkers. When was the last time they considerably raised the tax on alcohol like they did on cigerettes? It's cheaper to buy a 30 case of beer then a carton of cigerettes. Smokers are always discriminated, well some people should discriminate more against drinkers. Alcohol does as much damage if not more damage to your body as cigerettes. When was the last time you heard of a cigerette smoker killing an innocent person driving down the road. Compared to a drinker getting behind the wheel drunk and killing innocent people because they lack the common sense to realize what they are doing. To many people get killed or injured because of a drunk driver. The politicians increase the penalty of drunk driving but not the cost, if they would do both maybe not so many people would drink. They need to substantially increase the price of alcohol so there would be less fatalities of stupid accidents because someone got so drunk because they were depressed, mad at a spouse, girlfriend, family member or wanting to commit suicide. Alcohol is a depressant and makes you say and do stupid things with irreversable reprecutions.

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Donnie A wrote:

$13.99 a carton over seas and no tax

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just candid wrote:

<quoted text> You either have a great Big Big pot, or are growing something other that tobacco. Lots of luck with your "tobacco" LOL