# Why pass our overdue budget when we can just jack up the taxes on tobacco? **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/why-pass-our-overdue-budget-when-we-can-just-jack-up-the-taxes-on-tobacco/252839 **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic **Created:** [June 21, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/why-pass-our-overdue-budget-when-we-can-just-jack-up-the-taxes-on-tobacco/252839 "2010-06-21T20:07:32Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 33
### Author: ![Dread](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dread/32/6544_2.png) [@Dread](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dread) #### Post date: [June 22, 2010, 12:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/why-pass-our-overdue-budget-when-we-can-just-jack-up-the-taxes-on-tobacco/252839/33 "2010-06-22T12:07:21Z")
> [@Screw Loose change 9/11](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/screw-loose-change-9-11/32898/8): > > Misinterpreted. > I thought u said tax small businesses, before raising tax on tobacco. > In many cases, they are both the same thing. > > Start buying online- Russian/Ukranian Marlboro’s are only ~$20/carton ! > > Not a smoker, but had friends in college buying cartons and selling packs. > They made a good deal of money selling packs for $5 I dont smoke cigarettes but Im a big cigar smoker, I actually just started my second job as a rep for an up and coming cigar company but with this new tax its going to be very hard to get shops to pickup a new brand since most will be fighting just to survive now. Its the same deal online with cigars as it is cigarettes though, even before the tax that was approved yesterday cigars were very expensive in NY, I can buy online for about 1/3 of the price but I also like to support the little guys so I purchase from local shops very often as well. A cigar I can get online for $3-4 will probably cost $13-16 in a NY shop come August 1, its insane. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/why-pass-our-overdue-budget-when-we-can-just-jack-up-the-taxes-on-tobacco/252839)._