Government is deciding how you should live again
The blowhards in control of the state have decided to choose your life style for you again.
This time they are increasing fees on tobacco retailers to attempt to convince them to stop selling cigarettes and cigars. The previous fee for all stores in NYS was $100. Now after a huge increase and a sliding scale have been added it could be as much as $5000.
We have been reading here on thebatavian.com that people have been caught smuggling cigarettes out of the reservations. This new fee is only likely to increase the cigarette black market.
I enjoy the occasional cigar. I will more than likely buy them online now unless Angotti Beverage keeps their little cigar area open.
Background: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20090814/BUSINESS/908140328/New+state+fee+intended+to+force+out+tobacco+vendors
