[yellowsnow]

Proposed and signed by Gov. Sandoval. State tax per pack goes up to $1.80.

Nevada tax hike proposals upset smokers,

[ScoopLV]

My favorite kind of tax -- the avoidable kind.

[NLVgal]

Originally Posted by ScoopLV

My favorite kind of tax -- the avoidable kind.

Until you have to put up with someone like me. Who is avoiding it. And meaner than a wet hen

[ScoopLV]

Be *issed at the tobacco companies. I usually find directing such feelings helpful. The other thing that's helpful? Swimming. It's awfully difficult to light a cigarette underwater.


It's just a few more days.

[PinkString]

If you can make it to three months, you can quit for good. I have made it to 19 years since I woke up and quit one day. Those cigarette taxes should be a positive thing in helping people quit if they have been trying to.

[skugelstadt]

I attempted to quite several times before finally succeeding in 2001. A very difficult thing to do, you have to really want to do it. I dreamed of smoking years afterwards.

[clutchcargo777]

Originally Posted by PinkString

If you can make it to three months, you can quit for good. I have made it to 19 years since I woke up and quit one day. Those cigarette taxes should be a positive thing in helping people quit if they have been trying to.

I don't care for social engineering by my government. Once people start quitting because big brother told them to via taxes, the tax revenue addicted government will move on to something else they don't really like. Maybe something you like.

[SLCPUNK]

Originally Posted by clutchcargo777

I don't care for social engineering by my government. Once people start quitting because big brother told them to via taxes, the tax revenue addicted government will move on to something else they don't really like. Maybe something you like.

Boo hoo hoo. Don't smoke.

[clutchcargo777]

Originally Posted by SLCPUNK

Boo hoo hoo. Don't smoke.

So you think it's ok for the government to take from me as long as it doesn't effect you.

You don't really think that wont lead to them doing the same to you?

I suppose in the early 40's in Germany your advice would be "don't be a Jew"

[ScoopLV]

You agree that our government has expenses, yes?

You agree that much of these expenses are justified, yes?

You agree that the money has to come from somewhere, yes?


Then this is the best kind of tax. People who cannot afford this tax can choose not to pay it. It's like the new car registration screwage -- people who cannot afford this tax can drive an older car and avoid most of it.

Not so with sales taxes and property taxes. Even renters pay property tax -- it's cooked into the rent. They don't even have the ability to deduct it. That's the kind of tax I dislike.


There is no similarity whatsoever between the holocaust and cigarette taxes. Evel Knievel couldn't make that logical leap.