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July 18, 2007
20,000% Tax Hike
Posted by Dave Blount at July 18, 2007 6:42 AM
The greedy fiends who now control Congress are proposing raising the maximum tax on a cigar from 5¢ to $10.
Cigars are often manufactured by small businesses, like the one run by Eric Newman in Tampa, who gasps:
I'm not sure in the history of man, since our forefathers founded the country in 1776, that there's ever been a tax increase of 20,000 percent. They had the Boston Tea Party for less than this.
Yes, but we had a lot more character back in the days of the Boston Tea Party. Nowadays, all a tyrant needs to do is bleat the magic words, "It's for the children," and We the People roll onto our backs to expose our soft yellow bellies.
The money the government manages to bleed from the cigar industry before driving it out of business will supposedly go to health insurance for children who aren't poor and consequently don't qualify for Medicaid — just a small taste of what socialized medicine has in store for us.
On a tip from Byron.
