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<blockquote data-quote="Jazzman" data-source="post: 140285" data-attributes="member: 1067"><p>Well here in Massachusetts, or TAXachusetts as we locals call it we've received $500 million in our settlement with Big Tobacco, PLUS we bring in $300 in tobacco taxes(even on chewing tobacco..huh?).</p><p></p><p>And we've allocated a total of.........wait for it.....$9 million for smoking cessation programs!! That's right roughly 1%. Our dolt of a Governor and Mayor of Boston continue to pass laws about where one can smoke and tax us into the stone age for smoking but do they really want us to quit? NO!</p><p></p><p>I'd like to mount a campaign someday to DARE theses politicians to OUTLAW tobacco. It would appear that they have us on the ropes..finish us off! Finish us off!!!!!</p><p></p><p>They never would.They'd fold like a cheap lawn chair in there hypocrisy. Tobacco will never be outlawed.</p><p></p><p>That excess money goes into the General Fund to hire political cronies and and fund university studies on the migration of the dung beetle and such.</p><p></p><p>So we're caught between a rock and a hard place. Granted I don't want tobacco to be made illegal, and have a bit of a stash. Hey it might be fun to be a bootlegger! Sadly we'll just have to endure the taxes for now.</p><p></p><p>Peace-Mike :twisted:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jazzman, post: 140285, member: 1067"] Well here in Massachusetts, or TAXachusetts as we locals call it we've received $500 million in our settlement with Big Tobacco, PLUS we bring in $300 in tobacco taxes(even on chewing tobacco..huh?). And we've allocated a total of.........wait for it.....$9 million for smoking cessation programs!! That's right roughly 1%. Our dolt of a Governor and Mayor of Boston continue to pass laws about where one can smoke and tax us into the stone age for smoking but do they really want us to quit? NO! I'd like to mount a campaign someday to DARE theses politicians to OUTLAW tobacco. It would appear that they have us on the ropes..finish us off! Finish us off!!!!! They never would.They'd fold like a cheap lawn chair in there hypocrisy. Tobacco will never be outlawed. That excess money goes into the General Fund to hire political cronies and and fund university studies on the migration of the dung beetle and such. So we're caught between a rock and a hard place. Granted I don't want tobacco to be made illegal, and have a bit of a stash. Hey it might be fun to be a bootlegger! Sadly we'll just have to endure the taxes for now. Peace-Mike :twisted: [/QUOTE]
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