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Purveyor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 12:06 PM Original message |
Conn. Thieves Steal $1 million Worth Of Cigarettes |
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TheCoxwain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
1. They can break this record!!! |
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saigon68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-01-09 07:44 AM Response to Reply #1 |
37. Smoke Em- If you got Em |
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billyoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
2. So we'll see a flood of cheap, black market cigarattes in NYC. |
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davepc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 12:59 PM Response to Reply #2 |
16. Hope the bodega owner who sells them to you is strong armed into selling them as well? |
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billyoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 01:01 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. No, usually just outside construction sites, out of a panel truck. |
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Politicalboi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 12:18 PM Response to Original message |
3. And tomorrow |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
4. That onerous cigarette tax is to go into effect this week. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-01-09 07:52 PM Response to Reply #4 |
44. and it will do for crime, what prohibition did..(at least in Calif) |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
5. Its too bad no one will buy these.... |
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Seeking Serenity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 12:22 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. You're joking, right? |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 12:25 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Didn't forget. Thought it was too blatant |
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Seeking Serenity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 12:26 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. I don't know. With some of the posters around here, |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 12:23 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. ... |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 01:13 PM Response to Reply #5 |
20. You are kidding are you not. There would be no black market if |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
6. This is the direct result of over-taxing tobacco |
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apnu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 12:45 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. I'm glad I quit in 2005. |
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Zavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 06:39 PM Response to Reply #6 |
25. Correct. |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-01-09 02:06 AM Response to Reply #6 |
33. No. It's the direct result |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-01-09 07:10 AM Response to Reply #33 |
35. humans have adictable tendancies hard-wired |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-01-09 01:45 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. My sentence was a bit skewed. |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-01-09 02:43 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. "never trust a man without a vice" |
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christx30 (774 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-01-09 02:40 AM Response to Reply #6 |
34. And when the |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 12:24 PM Response to Original message |
9. But they were only worth $800,000 a week ago. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-01-09 07:53 PM Response to Reply #9 |
45. Found: a new career for ousted stock brokers |
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Wednesdays (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 12:41 PM Response to Original message |
12. That's one helluva nicotine fit! |
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davepc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
14. So higher sin taxes = more profits for organized crime. What could possibly go wrong?! |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 01:30 PM Response to Reply #14 |
22. If there wasn't a tax differential between states.... |
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960 (676 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 12:56 PM Response to Original message |
15. So, what's that like 3 packs? |
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jus_the_facts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 01:03 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. no doubt... |
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Tunkamerica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 01:05 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. that was going to be my joke. |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 09:51 PM Response to Reply #19 |
28. Mine too |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 01:27 PM Response to Original message |
21. inside job.... |
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edbermac (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 01:32 PM Response to Original message |
23. That guy is gonna have one helluva smoker's cough. |
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Prisoner_Number_Six (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
24. So, with the price jump, they got about 10 packs total? |
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hayu_lol (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 06:55 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Time for the Guv'vint to begin the ... |
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MrSlayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 09:44 PM Response to Original message |
27. The revolt has begun. |
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truthisfreedom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 11:18 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. Eat the rich, right? Destroy the businessmen, right? |
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MrSlayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 11:37 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. It's a revolt against the heavy thumbed taxation. |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 11:47 PM Response to Original message |
31. So the black market has begun 1 day in advance of the hike. Woohoo! |
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petronius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-01-09 12:25 AM Response to Original message |
32. Damn! How many truckloads is 15,000 cartons? |
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Nihil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-01-09 07:24 AM Response to Original message |
36. Well, that's made them pretty useless hasn't it ... |
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paparush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-01-09 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
40. Holy smokes. They won't be the butt of any jokes. |
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Speaker (225 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-01-09 06:19 PM Response to Original message |
41. America's most dangerous new job... |
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Dreamer Tatum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-01-09 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
42. You mean people will resort to crime to avoid overtaxation of a vice? |
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pipoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-01-09 07:29 PM Response to Original message |
43. Maybe its time once again? |
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