I'm glad you survived- even if on the cheap. On Mar 27, 11:44�pm, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > I got cigs for $1.00 a carton when I was in Viet Nam in 1963 on our little > base. �Bud was 10 cants a can. > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:38 PM, dick thompson > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > I stopped a few years ago but just noticed that a cheap pack of cigs here > > in �Queens is about $8.50. �When I first started smoking I started on Wings > > because they were 19 cents a pack and the regular Pall Mall cigarettes and > > Old Gold were 23 cents a pack. �Of course I also drank Bud then because it > > was 20 cents a frosted mug while Michelob was a quarter. �Things have > > changed a wee bit since then. > > > Travis 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. > > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:10 AM, rigsy03 <[email protected]> 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" <[email protected]> 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. > > -- > *~@):~{>- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
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