Comments on: Stogie News: Fighting for Survival in California http://www.stogieguys.com/2006/05/stogie-news-fighting-for-survival-in.html Blowin’ Smoke on Everything Cigars - cigar reviews, news and commentary 7 days a week Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:27:43 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Stogie Alert: Stop the $10 Per Cigar Tax Increase http://www.stogieguys.com/2006/05/stogie-news-fighting-for-survival-in.html/comment-page-1#comment-7986 Stogie Alert: Stop the $10 Per Cigar Tax Increase Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:31:14 +0000 http://stogieguys.com/?p=16#comment-7986 [...] We’ve long argued against punitive tobacco taxes – which we‘ve noted are simply picking on a minority already pays more than its fair share, but this proposal blows all other proposed tax increases out of the water.  And even if you think that SCHIP is something worth funding, you should still oppose a regressive tax on tobacco that picks on a small and already discriminated against group. [...] [...] We’ve long argued against punitive tobacco taxes – which we‘ve noted are simply picking on a minority already pays more than its fair share, but this proposal blows all other proposed tax increases out of the water.  And even if you think that SCHIP is something worth funding, you should still oppose a regressive tax on tobacco that picks on a small and already discriminated against group. [...]

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.stogieguys.com/2006/05/stogie-news-fighting-for-survival-in.html/comment-page-1#comment-7 Anonymous Sun, 13 Aug 2006 13:02:00 +0000 http://stogieguys.com/?p=16#comment-7 Tobacco is a gateway drug that leads to smoking marijuana which, as everyone knows, leads to heroin addiction. Smoking Cohiba's is the beginning of the dangerous path to smoking blunts. By taxing the sh!t out of tabacco California will create an exodus of drug users and effectively eliminate its tobacco AND drug problem. That, or we'll just buy our tabacco online through out of state vendors. Genius! Tobacco is a gateway drug that leads to smoking marijuana which, as everyone knows, leads to heroin addiction. Smoking Cohiba’s is the beginning of the dangerous path to smoking blunts. By taxing the sh!t out of tabacco California will create an exodus of drug users and effectively eliminate its tobacco AND drug problem.

That, or we’ll just buy our tabacco online through out of state vendors.

Genius!

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