Cigarette tax in NY is now $6.85 per pack!

[devil21]

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2010/07/01/2010-07-01_smokers_cigarette_sellers_fuming_over_tax_that_ takes_a_pack_up_to_at_least_1275.html




One smoker who wouldn't give his name said he bypasses the taxes by buying from bootleggers who peddle out-of-state cigs on city sidewalks for $6 per pack.

Smokers who did shell out the extra cash weren't happy about it.

"I couldn't believe it," said Robert O'Connell, 40, who paid $14.40 for a pack of Newports in Union Square.

The black (free) market will always step in when taxation becomes onerous. NY's tax revenues will probably drop after this.

[Fields]

Holy cow that's brutal.

[Southron]

That is a regressive tax on the poor too!

[specsaregood]

the mob thanks ny state for their support.

[catdd]

Let's see now; they need the tax money to pay for the "Childrens" Health Care Program and other things while simultaneously driving the tax so high people stop smoking or buy on the black market.

So who's going to pick up the tab now?

[knarfxii]

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2010/07/01/2010-07-01_smokers_cigarette_sellers_fuming_over_tax_that_ takes_a_pack_up_to_at_least_1275.html



The black (free) market will always step in when taxation becomes onerous. NY's tax revenues will probably drop after this.

South Carolina yesterday just raised ours another $.50, now it is $.57 a pack!

[WaltM]

what is it in NJ & PA?

Hint hint hint!! Job opportunity!

[devil21]

South Carolina yesterday just raised ours another $.50, now it is $.57 a pack!

Im just to the north of you and had been buying smokes online from a NY native reservation. Cartons for $16 delivered to my door...until the 1st of this month when it was deemed illegal by the Feds. Once these 18 cartons are gone I'll probably quit for good. I won't be demonized for being a smoker while also being taxed out the ass and paying for kid's health care at the same time.

[qh4dotcom]

I couldn't care less. I don't smoke.

[.Tom]

As a smoker, even a light one at that (1-2 cigs a day), all I can say is I'm glad I don't live in statist New York.

[Live_Free_Or_Die]

Holy cow! Any smokers in NY? I'd be happy to help stimulate the free market and run up some used un-opened packs for ya.

[MRK]

I couldn't care less. I don't smoke.

Surely you don't mean this.

[MozoVote]

Wonder how long it'll take smokers to just grow and cure their own.

[michaelwise]

I hate tyrants who determine what sin is and what sin is not. Fuck them. Eventually we should kill them with bullets.