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Old 07-28-2010, 11:39 AM
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Originally Posted by noonereal View Post
still is it right to charge $10 for a pack of cigarettes that would coast $2 if not for tax? I guess now that Obie is President and smokes the tax no long targets the lower income folks.
It's a "sin tax", Noone. It's designed to be exorbitant and even punitive to discourage smoking. I don't know exactly how I feel about it but I do think smoking ought to be actively, even aggressively, discouraged.

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