Ray From Cleveland
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My city was considering adding a 30 cent a pack smoke tax until it realized that most people would just drive out of the city to buy.
So common with the left.
When states did the same thing, there were bootleg cigarette around. People used to drive to Alabama to buy hundreds of cartons of cigarettes, and bring them up to Ohio to sell them cheaper.
At the time, I was working for a vending company. One of my jobs was to go downtown and have our meter filled. The meter was used to put an Ohio stamp on all packs of cigarettes that we sold. The clerk was telling me how the state had agents go into public places like bars and restaurants (smoking was okay in those places back then) and they would look for cigarette without the Ohio stamp on it. If they found one, they would issue a summons to court for the user. If the user wanted to get out of paying the fine, he or she would have to rat out where they bought the cigarettes from.
I used to buy cartons of smokes and take them to NYC with me when I went fairly regularly for people up there. Thing is, there are very few places in my city where you cannot be out of my city in 15 minutes so it isn't like it would be a big inconvenience. We have people coming across the state line to buy gas in my city because our state's gas tax is 50 cents less per gal.
It's all so silly. Reminds me of years ago when the Democrat Congress made it illegal to sell toilets with two gallon tanks. So people started to go to Canada to buy toilets and sell them in the US.
The new toilets manufacturers were forced to make didn't flush for shit (no pun intended). I think they were 1.4 gallons at the time, and you had to flush them three times to do the same job as the 2 gallon toilets you only flushed once.
One of our bathrooms has a low flow toilet. I realized this winter when I went in there that was the first time I had been in that particular bathroom in two years.
They are much better now, but at the time, they were worthless. Now I think the thing uses a quart of water.
I like the toilets that companies have for their employees restrooms. Those things use 5 gallons of water. You can flush a bowling ball down those toilets. Wish I could get the same thing for my home, but I think you would have to run 1" water lines to it for that kind of power.