Roll Your Own Cigarettes is going to be no more.

[DOC]

Has anyone heard about this? They tacked a rider bill onto a transportation bill that will make rolling your own smokes subject to a draconian manufactures tax.
I know that is a hardship for me since I could use that extra $25 for food gas or just to have and could do better things with it that the government. But there is a war on smokes just like there is on sugar, guns, salt and anything else fun. When is it going to stop? I know there is a bunch of people that smoke but just don't care. I wonder if its because they are able to smoke and chill. Maybe, heads will roll if people are forced to quit though these BS means.
Just wanted to know what you think and if there is anything that can be done to fight this war on well the poor?

[merl]

calm down son, nanny knows best.

any way to know who put in the amendment?

[birddog]

Will papers and supplies still be available? Just curious if the materials will be illegal or just the act of rolling smokes?

[DOC]

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index...ted_to_pu.html
Not sure about who added the rider. But apparently they tried to stuff that turkey will all kinds of bills.

[Goodburbon]

the majority has spoken. Smoking is now undesirable, legislation to persecute smokers doesn't garner a second look.

Might as well quit.

[BushMasterBoy]

I had a g/f that smoked two packs a day. The doctors had to remove one of her lungs. Now she only smokes half as much...

[Byte Stryke]

Obama looking out for small Businesses... to Tax

[birddog]

I had a g/f that smoked two packs a day. The doctors had to remove one of her lungs. Now she only smokes half as much...

Good for her, sounds like a sweetheart. Everybody needs a bad habit.

[DOC]

Will papers and supplies still be available? Just curious if the materials will be illegal or just the act of rolling smokes?

Yes. But instead of renting their machines to roll it in about 20 min. you have to roll them one by one at home and that takes about 3 hours.
Its like charging 25 - 49 dollars to use a progressive reloading press or doing it at home with a single stage press made of plastic.
I'm not going back to $50 -60 cartons. They can get their tax money somewhere else.
They are doing it for taxes which is weird to me, because don't they just deficit spend anyway. They don't even need to collect money. Its not they are on a budget.

[DOC]

Obama looking out for small Businesses... to Tax

Obama is such a hypocrite. How can he sign this bill knowing that its going to effect the poor and only the poor that found a niche to save some money and still live a little.