20,000 Percent Tax Increase

Congress is considering raising the taxes on a single cigar from a nickel ($0.05), to ten dollars ($10.00), for the children of course.  That’s a possible increase in taxes on cigars of 20,000 percent.  Punch it into your calculator and see for yourself, just like Eric Newman did.

Mr. Newman, whose line of cigars I happen to particularly enjoy, especially the Arturo Fuente family of cigars, notes this aggregious development and states the following.

“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,” said Newman, who runs the Tampa business founded by grandfather Julius Caesar Newman. “They had the Boston Tea Party for less than this.”

Mr. Newman is correct, the Boston Tea Party was instigated for less.  Sadly, the days when action taking individuals would defy the government are long gone, as today a vast majority of individuals vote for the continued swelling of the state, because the state hands out lots of goodies, never considering, nay ignoring, that those goodie handouts are paid for by the monies they bitch about not having in their paychecks.

I guess I better liquidate some assets, build a walk in humidor, and stock up on my favorite cigars.

Cigarmakers in a panic

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