I saw this graphic today and it surprised me (from an article about ciggie smuggling in NYC):
Who'd a thunk lil ol' New Mexico is a large market for smuggled cigarettes? Our per-pack tax is relatively low at $1.66, at least when compared to New York's $4.35, which does NOT include the additional tax levied by NYC. I haven't bought ciggies in well over seven years now but I'm pretty sure our legal price is about eight bucks a pack or so. Wait. There's my answer! Duh.
In other news... a late start today. We poured our first cup at precisely 1159 hrs so I can say we got our day goin' before the crack o' noon, if only just barely.
Who'd a thunk lil ol' New Mexico is a large market for smuggled cigarettes? Our per-pack tax is relatively low at $1.66, at least when compared to New York's $4.35, which does NOT include the additional tax levied by NYC. I haven't bought ciggies in well over seven years now but I'm pretty sure our legal price is about eight bucks a pack or so. Wait. There's my answer! Duh.
In other news... a late start today. We poured our first cup at precisely 1159 hrs so I can say we got our day goin' before the crack o' noon, if only just barely.
I seem to remember cigarette taxes and lottery money was supposed to go to schools. Big laugh. We get about three or four robberies a week from gangs who steal all the cigarettes and leave everything else. I quit smoking in the 80's when the price of cigarettes went up to 50 cents a pack. That was too outrageous for me.
ReplyDeleteI think they tax prostitutes as well. I mean, think of the children who don't have pencils.
er... should tax
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