Sunday, March 29, 2009

That Tears It!

The Nanny State has just upped the price of my smokes. The official spokes-rabbit of Paco Enterprises throws down the gauntlet.

12 comments:

Isophorone said...

I always wondered what would happen if the tobacco companies went "Ellis Wyatt" and burned all their tobacco fields and shut down their processing plants.

SwampWoman said...

Is that on all tobacco, or just cigarettes? Does that tax hit the premade, or are roll your own exempt?

/Thinking that Red Man will be more popular than ever.

SwampWoman said...

The feds are SO full of shit. They'd be up the creek for revenue if all the tobacco users quit en masse.

richard mcenroe said...

Which way to the nearest reservation, Paco? They still gots da cheap smokes...

TW: tordet: Paco finally snaps and declares open hostility over tobacco tax: "That tordet!"

kc said...

Years ago, to punish the evil smokers, Goverments at every level imposed extra taxes on cigarettes...to protect "the children" and recoup some of the money spent to care for us sick puppies. That was so easy, and raised so much new money for them, that every year or so, they increased the taxes again. When cigarettes in San Diego County went to $4.25 (we paid about a buck and a half less than that on base), I decided to have my own private Boston Tea Party - I don't pay the tax if I don't smoke - so I quit smoking 15 April 1997. Evidently I wasn't the only one with that idea, and many more people have quit smoking. So many that Government is no longer raking in the dough for their pet programs...not to mention their pockets. Cut programs? Cut spending? NAH! Simply RAISE the TAX AGAIN!

I hear that same pack of Marlboro Red is nearly eight bucks now. Their gonna take it, the only choice we have is which tax we're gonna pay.

Wimpy Canadian said...

Hey Paco, perhaps we can trade. I need the old fashioned, but cheap, thermic light-bulbs. Buy a gross for me and I'll drive down through Acwasasney (sp?) Indian reservation and pick up a bunch of smokes.

Paco said...

Wimpy: Done!

mojo said...

The total, blatant governmental hypocrisy over tobacco goes all the way back to James I of England, who also hated the "noxious weed", but was very happy to tax it. As has been every government since.

Isophorone said...

SwampWoman,

I think taxes are being raised on all kinds of tobacco. There was an article on it in this morning's Examiner. Unfortunately, I can't find a link.

Paco said...

They're being raised on all tobacco products. I smoke Winchester Little cigars (which, for all intents and purposes, are simply strong cigarettes). In D.C., they went from about $3.50 a pack to over $6.00.

Yojimbo said...

May I suggest that Pacosan got the short end of the stick. She Who is Never Wrong and Never Lets Me Forget It buys her stuff on the Rez. Hers went from $32.50 a carton to $40 a carton. The Yojimbo acquired big supply of pipe tobacco as the price hasn't changed yet.

cac said...

But presumably the Big O's opening up to Cuba will allow you to join the rest of the civilised world and enjoy some decent cigars, so not all bad surely?