More Taxes

docwatson

Lifer

Jul 2, 2009

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New England

• Aug 1, 2013

• #1

This concerns cigarette taxes and not pipe related so I will post this within this category of general discussion. As of today cigarette taxes in Massachusetts are increased $1.00 MORE per pack. I believe this doubles the tax on cigarettes. People will now be swarming over the state border to New Hampshire to buy their smokes. I am not a cig smoker but feel that his is excessive for sure. It's only time before the politicians whack the other tobacco products with more taxes as well. I believe that cigs will now run about $80.00 or more per carton. Obscene. :evil:

 

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plateauguy

Lifer

Mar 19, 2013

2,412

21

• Aug 1, 2013

• #2

Washington will catch wind of this and rush right out to do the same - they have tax envy.

 

daytonsean

Lifer

Aug 28, 2012

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3,201

Dayton

• Aug 1, 2013

• #3

Wow. They're about $55 - $60 a carton here in Ohio for Reds. My father told me when he was younger, his mother used to buy them at the base commissary for $4.25 a carton. He said $20 in the early 80's would last him a month or two.

 

foggymountain

Lifer

Aug 14, 2012

2,872

123

• Aug 1, 2013

• #4

They are higher in NY. I saw regular cigarettes marked $11.00 a pack the other day. I remember when they were 28 cents.

 

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chrisschneck

Lurker

Jul 24, 2013

36

0

• Aug 1, 2013

• #5

As a Canadian I can say that you don't know what high tobacco taxes are :P
Cigs are anywhere from $8 to $12 a pack.

50gr pipe tobacco is $31 to $38 a tin.
That's also before sales tax is added to the final price at checkout.

 

aristokles

Can't Leave

Jan 18, 2011

399

0

• Aug 2, 2013

• #6

Indeed. That tax on a tax-thing frosted me so much when I realized back in '05 what we were being charged I quit cigarettes over that lousy 6% assessed on another TAX.

 

Wellington

Part of the Furniture Now

Dec 31, 2012

531

578

• Aug 2, 2013

• #7

Cigarettes in saskatchewan are often around $15 a pack, as low as 11 or 12 maybe, and theres still a very high percentage of smokers.

 

mustanggt

Part of the Furniture Now

Dec 6, 2012

819

4

• Aug 3, 2013

• #8

I remember when I first started smoking cigarettes. 45 cents a pack. WA has always taken the lead in taxes so they'll catch up very soon.

 

papipeguy

Lifer

Jul 31, 2010

15,778

35

Bethlehem, Pa.

• Aug 3, 2013

• #9

This is why the RYO "pipe" tobacco has taken off and another reason why we pipers need to be concerned. D.C. and the FDA wants to group all pipe tobacco together and the blenders are fighting it. So write to your state and Federal reps to distinguish the difference or we'll all be screwed.

 

cigrmaster

Lifer

May 26, 2012

20,249

57,280

66

Sarasota Florida

• Aug 3, 2013

• #10

All these taxes that the states are allegedly collecting are now costing us big time in Federal expenses. The ATF is now spending millions of dollars going after people who are trucking cigarettes from the low tax states into the high tax ones. The states are creating a prohibition type climate where organized crime realizes the amount of money that is to be made by avoiding the taxes these states are imposing. Our state and federal governments are so freaking stupid it is unbelievable. If we legalized pot, stopped with the stupid taxes on cigarettes, we could save billions of dollars, but no, now that we have privatized prisons, there is monetary incentive to jail as many people as possible. Our politicians( both sides) are really screwing us tax payers with their insane policies.

 

numbersix

Lifer

Jul 27, 2012

5,449

53

• Aug 3, 2013

• #11

All these taxes that the states are allegedly collecting are now costing us big time in Federal expenses. The ATF is now spending millions of dollars going after people who are trucking cigarettes from the low tax states into the high tax ones. The states are creating a prohibition type climate where organized crime realizes the amount of money that is to be made by avoiding the taxes these states are imposing. Our state and federal governments are so freaking stupid it is unbelievable. If we legalized pot, stopped with the stupid taxes on cigarettes, we could save billions of dollars, but no, now that we have privatized prisons, there is monetary incentive to jail as many people as possible. Our politicians( both sides) are really screwing us tax payers with their insane policies.

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Well said Harris, you've captured it all in one well written paragraph. But I think the politicians are well aware of what they're doing, so we're basically screwed.

 

peckinpahhombre

Lifer

Dec 24, 2012

7,195

456

• Aug 3, 2013

• #12

You guys are starting to sound like a bunch of grumpy old men sitting on your porches, lol

 

mso489

Lifer

Feb 21, 2013

41,210

60,454

• Aug 3, 2013

• #13

I can stretch a 12 oz tin of OTC for a long time, but it would take a lot of the pleasure out of tobacco pipes

if the variety of tobacco was limited by pricing. Maybe we're in the golden age and some of us will get old

enough to look back on these good old days, as we pack our weekly bowl from our $100 12 oz tin of

Prince Albert.