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by charlie
on Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:40 pm |
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http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2008/aug/13/0813_printt/
Editorial: Paterson should sign law to tax cigarette sales by Indian tribes
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
New York state needs all the money it can get these days, including as much as $400 million a year in added cigarette tax revenue that would be generated if only Indian reservations were no longer able to sell cigarettes to non-tribal members tax-free. The state Legislature has passed yet another bill aimed at enforcing this long-flouted law which would likely force an unpleasant confrontation with the state’s Indian tribes, but Gov. David Paterson hasn’t yet decided whether to sign it. He should. |
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by Jay
on Thu Aug 14, 2008 5:43 pm |
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If Patterson signs it, me heard the Natives within Seneca nation intends on pressing charges. I'm sure they got a lawyer in waiting too.
If NY is soooo f-ckin money hungry, why don't the state of NY ask alcoholics to pay more in taxes for beer? How about higha fast food taxes too?
Smokers shouldn't be the only ones paying hi-A taxes. And tax-free cigs are good for a smoker's wallet. |
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by Andrew The Cowboy
on Tue Aug 19, 2008 3:28 pm |
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It's a tax-free! weekend in Houston, Texas. I just bought a plasma screen for my truck, 4 twelve inch subwoofers, a new lazy boy, some kids school uniforms, backpacks, school suppies, 5 kegs of D  utch fire water, four-hundred cartons of Virginia's finest smoke and a pear ttree. . . . . Hurray for Tax-Free Weekends! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Oh and I stole a bottle of Jim Beam from Uncle Sam's house OH the morning sickness  |
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