Re: Remember when...

On 12/21/09 7:55 PM, Tom S. wrote:
On 12/21/2009 5:39 PM, Ken Dixon wrote:
On 12/21/09 7:29 PM, Tom S. wrote:
On 12/21/2009 5:08 PM, Bill wrote:
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Remember when Lew owned JR Cigar and they actually had real specials
during the Christmas season?

Those were the days.

About the same time Congress passed the S-CHIP taxes, the producers
jacked their prices about 20% (based unempirically on price deltas
factoring the slight tax increases).

Currency exchange rates? Crop failures?

Be glad prices are holding steady.

As for me, I'm finding a pound of good pipe tobacco at $35-55 goes a lot
further than the same money spent on cigars.

I've been stocking up on pipe tobacco and pounds I bought last year
for $25 are up to near $40 this year. Now they're trying to get pipe
tobacco re-classified as RYO so they can tax it even more. Politicians
suck.

That last is a given - it begs the question of who are the servants and
who are the masters.

The tax on pipe tobacco went up only a couple bucks a pound, so how/why
did prices go from $25 to $40?

A good question. My guess would be to cover the losses on cigar and RYO sales.
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