Guest LadyC Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 happy to hear that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LadyC Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 LOL, RG, you may annoy me a lot of times, but i appreciate the fact that you're making me laugh... i'll be able to go to church with a happy attitude, even if my own husband's a major grump this morning! (but he'd better hurry and get out of the shower or i'll miss my morning donut and the whole church will hear me rumbling.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~ angelique ~~ Posted March 15, 2009 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 85 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 665 Content Per Day: 0.11 Reputation: 2 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/11/2007 Status: Offline Birthday: 06/24/1968 Share Posted March 15, 2009 Personally, I think the "cigarette" tax is just the beginning. It's the whole redistribution of wealth concept. LOL, if smoking is addictive, then get smokers to pay higher taxes which get paid into the federal and state governments thus helping the bailouts. This is just the beginning. IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kat8585 Posted March 15, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 1,360 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 7,866 Content Per Day: 1.24 Reputation: 26 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/22/2006 Status: Offline Birthday: 04/18/1946 Author Share Posted March 15, 2009 i said pay an ADDITIONAL $1 PER GALLON than anyone else. I never heard of this. Is it just a Nevada thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorningGlory Posted March 15, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1,022 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 39,193 Content Per Day: 6.10 Reputation: 9,977 Days Won: 78 Joined: 10/01/2006 Status: Offline Share Posted March 15, 2009 nice use of data RG, but it didn't even address the question i asked of you, or the point i was making regarding personal freedoms as they pertain to legal activities. mizzdy, thank you... seems a lot of people just brushed right past the economic ruin that results in such laws, maybe since you brought it up, people will consider that point! you ask for factual evidence and logic, when you get it your dismiss it. We are a community in this country. We have all sorts of laws that restrict personal freedoms if they are good for the community as a whole. As a Representative Republic we make laws that are good for the whole, sometimes at the price of the individual. For all the increases in taxes on cigs the smoking rate is now staying pretty steady at about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorningGlory Posted March 15, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1,022 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 39,193 Content Per Day: 6.10 Reputation: 9,977 Days Won: 78 Joined: 10/01/2006 Status: Offline Share Posted March 15, 2009 happy to hear that! you would think that after 17 years of marraige I would have learned not to argue with a woman! There's hope for you, RG! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneLight Posted March 15, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 22 Topic Count: 1,294 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 31,762 Content Per Day: 5.23 Reputation: 9,762 Days Won: 115 Joined: 09/14/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted March 15, 2009 Didn't they use to call these taxes the "Sin Tax"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Believer1997 Posted March 15, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 66 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 6,363 Content Per Day: 1.13 Reputation: 119 Days Won: 9 Joined: 11/07/2008 Status: Offline Share Posted March 15, 2009 Didn't they use to call these taxes the "Sin Tax"? I always thought that was funny - up until a few years ago that terminology was on Virginia Code of Taxation books... It's called something else now...but I kinda liked the "sin" tax... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LadyC Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 i said pay an ADDITIONAL $1 PER GALLON than anyone else. I never heard of this. Is it just a Nevada thing? LOL no, it's not an anywhere thing, i was making an analogy trying to get RG to grasp the point i was making! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mizzdy Posted March 16, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 173 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 3,911 Content Per Day: 0.66 Reputation: 212 Days Won: 10 Joined: 03/21/2008 Status: Offline Share Posted March 16, 2009 We are a community in this country. We have all sorts of laws that restrict personal freedoms if they are good for the community as a whole. As a Representative Republic we make laws that are good for the whole, sometimes at the price of the individual. For all the increases in taxes on cigs the smoking rate is now staying pretty steady at about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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