NYC raises price for pack of cigarettes to $13..!!!!

[Text Drivers are Killers]

This will result in a huge black market as millions of NYers go somewhere else and buy cigs at $5 a pack and resell then in NYC at say $7.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/new-york-city-to-raise-minimum-price-of-cigarettes-to-13-a-pack/

Aug. 10 (UPI) — The New York City Council voted this week to raise the minimum price of a pack of cigarettes to $13 and banned their sales in pharmacies.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio personally introduced the plan to city lawmakers in April and is expected to sign the legislation, reported the New York Daily News.

The minimum price for a pack of cigarettes in the Big Apple is currently $10.50, while the average price is $11.23.

 

[Text Drivers are Killers]

Remember the eric garner case from 3 years ago.? He was selling individual cigs he bought elsewhere because NYC was taxing them so much. Now even more people will do that.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

maybe this is what the statists and sheeple of new york need to wake themselves up and see the tyranny that is NYC

 

[Phantasmal]

This will result in a huge black market as millions of NYers go somewhere else and buy cigs at $5 a pack and resell then in NYC at say $7.

They should be the same amount as a pack of joints would cost, $120

 

[logical1]

While I am anti smoking this is another stupid deal of a radical left winger telling other people what they should do.

 

[chink]

maybe this is what the statists and sheeple of new york need to wake themselves up and see the tyranny that is NYC

great post

 

[domer76]

While I am anti smoking this is another stupid deal of a radical left winger telling other people what they should do.

Sure isn't. Smoke if you want. Nobody is telling you not to.

 

[domer76]

maybe this is what the statists and sheeple of new york need to wake themselves up and see the tyranny that is NYC

Smoke or don't smoke, asshole. Nobody is stopping you.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

Smoke or don't smoke, asshole. Nobody is stopping you.

taxation is nothing more than theft designed to prohibit behavior that the elitists deem improper of undesirable. but you're a constitutionally ignorant moron and wouldn't understand that simple concept, asshole.

 

[domer76]

taxation is nothing more than theft designed to prohibit behavior that the elitists deem improper of undesirable. but you're a constitutionally ignorant moron and wouldn't understand that simple concept, asshole.

Smoking costs the taxpayer $300 billion dollars a year. High cost has proven to be the best method to prevent young people from starting.

Constitution? I have continually kicked your ass on the 2nd. Carried that popgun into the courthouse yet, Rambo?

 

[logical1]

Liberals never met a tax they didnt like.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

Smoking costs the taxpayer $300 billion dollars a year. High cost has proven to be the best method to prevent young people from starting.

typical liberal statist. control what the people can and cannot do because YOU THINK you know whats best for everyone. this is why the next civil war will see you all dead in the name of liberty

Constitution? I have continually kicked your ass on the 2nd. Carried that popgun into the courthouse yet, Rambo?

you don't know jack shit about the constitution, you only know what you WANT to know, no matter how wrong it is.

 

[domer76]

typical liberal statist. control what the people can and cannot do because YOU THINK you know whats best for everyone. this is why the next civil war will see you all dead in the name of liberty



you don't know jack shit about the constitution, you only know what you WANT to know, no matter how wrong it is.

How do you propose to pay that $300 billion for smoking related illness? Do YOU want to pay for it or do you want it to be a user tax?

lol

I've kicked your ass on the Constitution so many times, I've lost track. Find those inalienable rights yet, dimwit?