I enjoy smoking- why should I give up a pleasure? I am giving up
lunching with Liberals as a trade-off. :-) You know that obesity in
America is counted as a greater health risk versus a lifetime of
smoking, I presume.
On Mar 27, 11:32�pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Rigs: �In Dec I paid $22.10 a carton. Jan mfgr price increase $.2.40 a
> carton. �March 1 Ark tax increaase $5.60 a carton. April 1 Fed tax increase
> $6.10 per carton. �Price April 2 = $36.20 �a 58% increase. �I now pay appx
> 70% of price in taxes.
> BS. �I Quit. �Annual savings in taxes alone is about $2000.00.
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> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:10 AM, rigsy03 <rigs...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Smoking may become a patriot's duty, d.b.! :-) Last carton was $54.
> > When I said I might start growing tobacco the man behind me said
> > you'll sooner get marijuana.// Why not redesign the head gasket-
> > whatever that is- I grow faint when open the hood of my car. I often
> > wished you could repair a car with a sewing machine or needle and
> > thread.// I have a large back yard- the last one in the neighborhood-
> > and have thought of lambs, geese and chickens but would be breaking
> > city codes although the desecration of breathing space and privacy
> > around homes doesn't qualify as injurious. But they are.
>
> > On Mar 27, 1:04 am, "d.b.baker" <rth...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > �> Obama is simply the icing on the Marxist cake. The takeover has been
> > > underway for decades.
>
> > > It's the "little" things, like Chicago charging 16 quarters for an
> > > hour of parking. Or that new red-light camera around the corner, you
> > > know, the one where the yellow changes in 1.5 seconds. Neat, huh. Or
> > > forcing corn oil into your gas tank, blowing the head gasket.
>
> > > Little things, like Eminent Domain, so the local apparatchik can seize
> > > you property. I'm afraid to even mention all the wrongfully convicted
> > > sitting on death row - the precipitous rise of the "Nancy Graces." Or
> > > little Johnny forced into a dangerous school. And the tax on
> > > productivity, the regulations meant to bankrupt business, individuals,
> > > and anyone else not beholden.
>
> > > How 'bout importing terrorists by the boat load. And the illiterate,
> > > the "less" militant non-assimilaters. Nervous? Well don't take up
> > > cigarettes, they're nearing 10-dollars a pack. My neighbor Sam has
> > > taken up tobacco farming. On the other side, Mrs. Rose is planting
> > > squash. And potatoes. And Sunday she's going fishing - taking a taxi,
> > > too, she doesn't want to get caught in another roadside, police
> > > shakedown.
>
> > > While the young are all a Twitter. Tweeting their way down the dead-
> > > end road.
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