Death to Tobacco & Your Freedoms…
The REAL Politico Agenda
On October 2nd, 2008, in only my second blog ever here at JR, I wrote the following words…
“Career politicians are scum. They are liars, thieves, scoundrels, and whores. There isn’t a one of them that doesn’t have three sixes branded on the back of their necks. They suck up to special interest groups like the anti-tobacco lobby and do not care about lumping cigars in with cigarettes. It is time to put an end to career political stoogery. It’s time the people were heard.”
My feelings haven’t changed any since then – well, actually, my contempt for these jackass’s has grown even stronger if anything. Something is fundamentally wrong with these people – ethically, morally, and spiritually and for the life of me, 
I can’t understand what motivates these dirtbags to go into this line of work. Okay, money, power, fame, prestige, yada, yada, yada. I get that. But why put your cojones on public display like that? Do they really think they are going to change the way things run in the political system? Do they really think they’re going to make things better for the people? And lastly, do they really believe that imposing more and more taxes upon the American citizens is the way we will crawl out of this economic sink-hole?
Meet David Paterson, friends. If you don’t know him, he’s the governor of New York State and he’s as blind as a goddamned bat. Now, I’m not referring to his eyesight, but yes, the man is legally blind. I was referring to his classic politico tax and spend lunacy that he has thrust upon Albany ever since his ex wing-eared, bald boss, Eliot Spitzer got caught with his hands in the nookie jar. Patterson proposed a tax for New York state on all soda, juice, and candy products – anything with sugar. Of course the lobbies for these industries went ballistic and Patterson took a verbal beatdown for his blatant idiocy. But now dumbass Dave needs a “fix New York quick solution”, so the state has passed a tobacco tax increase that will raise the all ready horribly high tax rate from 46% to a smothering 75%. And to make matters worse, this clown initially proposed a 90% increase.
Now I don’t smoke cigarettes and I don’t care for them, but a pack in New York is going to be around $12. But what I do care for are cigars, and the increase to 75% is going to put a hurt on the state’s retailers like nothing they have ever felt before. Let’s put it this way…. You Mr. cigar lover can sit in front of your computer, press a few keys, and purchase a $150 box of your favorite stoagies for – yes $150. But come August 1st, walk into a tobacco store in New York State and try to purchase a $150 box of cigars and the cost will be $262.50. So, I ask the ridiculous question… where would you choose to buy your precious smokes? While it doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to figure this out, it seems that New York’s clueless leader doesn’t understand simple economics. It’s very easy to digest dopey Dave… people will either log onto the internet or purchase their premium handrolled cigars out of state. When this happens, the State of New York will not collect the tax revenues that you thought it would. And to make things infinitely worse, cigar & tobacco retailers in New York will see a massive decline in sales, forcing many or most out of business. You will destroy small business across the state and not make up for the state’s deficit in the least. You will hurt New York. Mr. Patterson, and for the rest of you boneheaded legislators of the Empire State, I ask you… if everyone else can see this to be the truth, why the hell can’t you?
Ah, and now for the REAL truth…
The answer… because politicians WANT to eradicate smoking all together. THAT ladies and germs is the real agenda. You heard it from Tommy Z. These politico jackals pander heavily for votes and to the anti-smoking lobby, and they know quite well that raising taxes to the point where no one will be able to afford to purchase tobacco products is what gets them elected. There is no doubt in my mind that THIS is the method to their sickening madness as we just pull down our trousers, bend over the closest desk or chair and take it firmly in the place it hurts the most (Sans lubricant, of course.).
And may I just note… isn’t it funny that that most of these fat cat politico bastids smoke cigars? WTF…right? Uh-huh.
So, what’s the answer? Well, preventing this, years before it happened was the real answer, but the cigar industry waited WAY TOO long and then reacted in a panic when Pelosi and the Hildbeast got the SCHIP bill in place. I think the only real thing left to do is to scream aloud, take to the streets and create complete and utter anarchy. Guys, if you think this stops at tobacco, YOU’RE WRONG. Our freedoms are being stripped away at an alarming pace and the only real question we can ask is… WHAT’S NEXT? Soda, red meat, liquor… when tobacco is eradicated the government will go after the next thing then the next, then the next. This isn’t about cigars, people, it’s about the preservation of our society – a society that is being gagged and bound by the unholy agenda of the political correct.
In closing, one day after Independence Day, I challenge YOU to grow a pair and make some real noise. Oh… okay… so you shake your head and say that you think it won’t help? Then fine… turn around, drop ‘em and take it like a man, bro. Personally, I’d rather go out kicking and screaming with my dignity in tact, clutching to the rights that our forefathers fought and died for.
Give these bastards bloody f@#king hell.
Tommy Z.
JR CIGARS Blog With the Zman
July 5th, 2010 at 10:35 am
Damn, we just drove back from Orlando. I could have stopped in at JR and stocked up on cigarettes. Then I could have gone to NY and made a bundle of cash. Missed my chance.
July 5th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
When opportunity knocks, you gotta open the door.
July 6th, 2010 at 12:07 am
Unless it’s Zman at the door. Who knows what weird shit he’ll ask you to do?
July 6th, 2010 at 1:53 am
Most politicians get inflicted with the virus of selfishness. It becomes about their careers and not about what their constituency wants. I have worked in government before, and yes, there are some good ones, but the majority are self-absorbed idiots who will do anything, including sell their soul, to keep themselves propped up in the political arena.
Taxes suck.
July 6th, 2010 at 2:47 am
Whatever increase in revenue this clown thinks he’ll enjoy will be offset by the people who either quit smoking, drive to a neighboring state to stock up, or buy their fix on the black market. Of course the smart ones will just move the hell out and New Yak will be left with nothing but moochers and dirtbag politicians.
July 6th, 2010 at 2:56 am
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
And THAT is the precise exact reason we are in the predicament so aptly described by our affable host. Our system is broken and is, in my estimation, doomed to failure. I agree wholeheartedly with the Zman that one of the pillars of our society has been and continues to be whittled away, that pillar being personal freedoms. Draconian laws like the ludicrous taxes on tobacco are a form of oppression and social engineering.
Unfortunately, it seems the Left is a primary driver of many of these assaults on our freedoms – although the Religious Right is also PERMEATED with an agenda that similarly erodes Liberty.
Personally, I am disgusted with Government. Absolutely repulsed. These vile individuals are like a vast invading army that has infiltrated the core of our society like a cancer, down to the molecular level. And unfortunately, at this point in time, the patient is terminal.
Smoke ‘em while you got ‘em, boys…
July 6th, 2010 at 3:01 am
Best post in 3 years for Cotty.
July 6th, 2010 at 3:25 am
As Thomas Jefferson so eloquently and succintly put it, “That government is best which governs least.” However, given the state of government these days, I’m tempted to go along more with Henry David Thoreau, who said “That government is best which governs not at all.”
These politicos not only have their heads up their a$$es, but also have their hands buried deep in our pockets, and it’s NOT to provide us pleasure.
And just like SCHIP, but worse, this will mean the death of small businesses in New York, and more importantly, a significant DECREASE in tax revenues.
July 6th, 2010 at 3:30 am
Right on…
July 6th, 2010 at 5:44 am
The Obama/Pelosi/Reid agenda is to have us totally dependent on government for everything, having no freedoms or liberty of our own. He’s pissed on the Constitution, and his new choice for the Supreme Court (Kagan) wants to ban us from owning firearms. This November election will be the most important in our countries history. I’m certainly not a … See Moreconspiracy theorist, but one has to wonder what the end game of all this will be. In California over the past few years, 165,000 private sector jobs have been cut, while 120,000 government jobs have been added. The end result is more taxes to pay for that gloat. One bright spot in all this, is at this rate, the government will collapse at some point. It will suck, for it will put us in another great depression. Might be what it takes to right the ship though.
July 6th, 2010 at 5:47 am
Great post airforceone, and welcome aboard!
July 6th, 2010 at 6:23 am
This whole “sin tax” business has gotten waaay out of hand. I don’t smoke cigs any more, but $12/pack is just insane. I’m afraid that all of us cigar smokers are going to take it up the you-know-what, because the politicians can get away with it. Believe me, if there were enough VOTERS against it, it would never get off the ground. Most folks don’t bother to even vote, and, apparently, many of the voters are anti-tobacco. Maybe we should set up voter registration drives at the casinos and bingo halls. lol!!
July 6th, 2010 at 6:34 am
That’s an idea! Voter registration at the casinos and bingo halls – not to mention the bars, NASCAR races – oh, and how ’bout at the shooting range??
July 6th, 2010 at 6:36 am
Oh, by the way – my email signature line for the past 10 years or so:
“The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.”
– Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, address to New York Press Club, September 9, 1912
July 6th, 2010 at 6:41 am
They may have already neutered this country.
everyone else has put it correctly here; I’m frustrated to the point of having very little to add to this, at this point.
I feel alienated in my own country, by politicians who detest its ideals.
July 6th, 2010 at 6:44 am
BTW
WHY did we fight the Cold War so fiercely, only to become more like that which we were vehemently opposed to… perhaps we lost from the inside-out.
F@CK socialism.
July 6th, 2010 at 6:48 am
Well said Wild Turkey…. in a sentence; Reagan vs. Obama.
July 6th, 2010 at 6:51 am
Or to be more specific, an American Patriot vs. an Islamic Extremist.
July 6th, 2010 at 9:45 am
“An Islamic Extremist?” C’mon, man. We may disagree on politics, and I’ll respect your views, but let’s keep things out of the Twilight Zone, okay?
July 6th, 2010 at 10:07 am
BTW, the state tax on cigars here is 50%, with a higher tax of 70% on smaller cigars (30-ring and smaller). Z is absolutely right about the consequences NY will face with their tax increase. Here in Honolulu, there are maybe three dedicated cigar shops, and only one that I’d go to because of their selection.
No wonder I buy 90% of my cigars from JR.
July 6th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
Wow, today I’ve read somesome of the weirdest shit that I’ve ever seen posted on this blog. and that’s saying a lot.
July 6th, 2010 at 11:14 pm
The U.S. was formed in opposition to a tyranical government and based upon individual freedoms. 234 years later we’re almost back to where we started, only the tyranical government seems to be our own. Voters better take notice in November! I have to agree with Wild Turkey about the Cold War! Das novia my comrades!!!!
July 6th, 2010 at 11:27 pm
Cotty, great post, bro. Outstanding. As a matter of fact, there have been several insightful posts here. Normally, we get the ‘fiend going off on lack of boobage right about now….
Sin taxes suck. But what is the answer? Stay with the leftist tax regime? Revolt and get the far right conservative bullsh*t? Go with the unorganized Tea Party? There has to be a way to tell these bastages NO when it comes to taxes and attempting to limit our personal freedoms.
July 6th, 2010 at 11:58 pm
P.S. Where are the cleavage shots for this blog?
July 7th, 2010 at 12:33 am
Notice that I didn’t ask about boobs?
That’s because Zman has posted here several times already. LMAO!!!
July 7th, 2010 at 12:45 am
Hey Fiend, make sure they change your diaper in this heat.
July 7th, 2010 at 12:53 am
I’ll have them mail the used ones to you. Parcel Post, so they have time to ripen for you.
July 7th, 2010 at 12:54 am
LMAO!!!!!
July 7th, 2010 at 1:13 am
Do the research H.B….
July 7th, 2010 at 2:04 am
I’m pretty conservative. Actually, I’m more Libertarian than anything (but certainly not aligned with the letter of the Libertarian platform, which is too extreme).
* I don’t think Obama is by any stretch of the imagination an “Islamic extremist”.
* Glenn Beck is an entertainer first and foremost.
* The sky is not falling.
July 7th, 2010 at 3:21 am
Anything that Beck says has to be taken as 100% bullshit. He is there to make millions for himself off of the weak minded who swallow his nonsense whole. That is it. He’s not there to save the Republic or anything, no matter how many layers of the flag he wraps himself in.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:04 am
the tree of liberty needs to be watered at times with the blood of patriots.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:36 am
I did some research, airforceone, and you know what I found out? You’re an idiot!
Just kidding. Welcome to the board – always good to have some new blood in here. I still think you’re way off base on calling the president an “Islamic extremist,” but whatever. At least it livened up the blog.
July 7th, 2010 at 8:12 am
Comparing Reagan and Obama is kind of like comparing John Wayne and Karl Marx (or maybe Harpo Marx, since this administration is a bunch of clowns).
July 7th, 2010 at 8:16 am
Although, at least Harpo had the sense to keep his mouth shut. Maybe we should get Pelosi, Reid, and Obama little bicycle horns to honk. It would sound much more intelligent than the crap they spout now.
July 7th, 2010 at 8:20 am
Hey Garfiend… what cereal box did you get that from? It’s pretty good.
July 8th, 2010 at 12:50 am
Arrrrg! The Gov of PA, Fast Eddie Rendell, was on CNN this morning discussing the passing of the new PA budget. He was disappointed that he couldn’t get a raise in the tobacco tax included in the budget. He and the interviewers were harping on the fact that they missed out on a chance to raise a lot of money. F-ing idiots.
July 8th, 2010 at 1:30 am
Count Chocula, Zman.
July 10th, 2010 at 3:45 am
The sad truth is they are all fucked up in Washington both the left and the right. The only guy that makes any sense is Ron Paul.
Our forefathers are turning over in their graves watching us the last decade.
gg