Tax 'em if you got 'em

Just wait until the next van from Carolina cruises through your neighborhood.

Sin taxes bite.

 

Never smoked, hopefully never will, nut in NJ it's less than $6.00, about $5.50. I'd be pretty annoyed if I were a smoker, but they do almost as much (slight hyperbole) taxing on our gas and then blame the prices on the oil companies, so I'll leave my outrage there for now.

 

So, what do you use now?

 

It's a minimum of $5.50-5.60 plus 7% sales tax. That puts it right around $6 a pack.

 

You can get Marlboros for less than 4 bucks a pack in Virginia. Virginia is for diseased lung lovers.

 

i'm wondering if smokes will be cheaper here in North Carolina than they are in Texas.

 

NY's going to have a huge influx of smuggled cigarettes coming their way now that their cigarettes cost so much more than those in the South.

Hell, it might be a good way to supplement my income. All I need is a U-Haul and about $3,500 to buy 1,000 cartons in the South. I can then drive them to NY where I can sell them to distributors for a total of $6,000 who will also take in a profit.

After gas and cost to rent the truck, I made about a $2,000 profit. Not bad for a weekend's work.

 

i think NC's sin taxes are damn low.

 

Even better, buy them on an Indian reservation in NY or CT. No taxes, plus you don't have to drive as far.

 

Turns out toothpaste works pretty well. Who have thought so?

 

Oh, yeah. It's probably a good thing he didn't combine that with the roofing experience.

 

If I don't smoke should I care about this?