Tax Guru-Ker$tetter Letter
Wednesday, September 04, 2002
Taxing Your Butts
I couldn't improve on the Wall Street Journal headline for this story of how states are going to extreme steps to ensure that they get their high taxes on cigarettes, even when their residents buy them from other states over the Internet. This is also the start of states taxing their residents for other things that they buy over the 'net.
I have said this several times before; but it never ceases to amaze me how a large group of people (smokers) can sit by so mildly and allow themselves to be persecuted so harshly by our rulers. The fact that the rulers are literally exploiting addicts' need for their drug (nicotine) makes this doubly sickening.
KMK