Showing posts with label Gloucester VA Links and News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gloucester VA Links and News. Show all posts

Saturday, July 7, 2012

GVLN - Roll-Your-Own Cigarette Stores Going Up In Smoke


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For smokers who bargained on roll-your-own cigarette stores for cheap smokes, it looks like those days are numbered.  On Friday, President Barack Obama is expected to sign into law a federal highway bill with a section that redefines tobacco manufacturers to include any business with a roll-your-own cigarette machine and taxes those products at the same rate as packaged smokes.
The move comes a month after Illinois increased taxes on such roll-your-own machine-made cigarettes.
Marcia Smith, 47, of Lake County, decided after the state tax increase that she should move her Smokes & Such tobacco shops in Skokie and Gurnee to Wisconsin, where taxes on rolled cigarettes are lower.
If Obama signs the law, she said she’ll shut her doors.
The machines, which cost about $33,000 each, allow customers to pick their own tobacco and pour it into a device that can roll the tobacco into a carton, or about 200 cigarettes, within minutes.
Since 2009, RYO stores have been selling cigarettes with far lower taxes than packaged cigarettes.
Why? In 2009, Congress more than doubled the federal excise tax on cigarettes, and, to bring RYO tobacco in line with packaged smokes, raised the tax on RYO tobacco from $1.10 a pound to $24.78 a pound. Yet it raised the tax on pipe tobacco by a far smaller amount — from $1.10 to $2.83 a pound.

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Just goes to show that it's the government that is in the tobacco business and not private industry.  Yet another alternative is the electronic cigarettes.  I have tried them and they really are pretty good alternatives.  But they are restricted in many areas just like cigarettes despite what any of the ads might say.

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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

National Anthem Fife and Drums Style - Colonial Williamsburg Senior Corp


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Ladies and Gentlemen, our National Anthem as played by the Colonial Williamsburg Fife and Drum Senior Corp.  Happy 4th of July.


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American Patriot Part 3 - 4th of July Celebration, Williamsburg, Virginia


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Our 3rd and final part of an American Patriot.  Shot in Colonial Williamsburg.  Part of out 4th of July Celebration.


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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Free E-Book How To Fix, Repair, Upgrade Or Build Any Computer




Sign up and get this incredible how to guide for fixing, repairing, building desk top and lap top computers.  This PDF document has incredible full color pictures and easy to follow instruction to help you get the job done.  DIY and save a bundle of money.

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Sunday, August 24, 2008

A Coleman Bridge Opening, Gloucester, VA from YouTube


Here is a video of the Coleman Bridge opening.  Gloucester Point and Yorktown.  Found this on You Tube and thought we would share it.  Gloucester, VA Links and News.  GVLN Website.

Big Gloucester County Issue


This is a big Gloucester County issue. I do not have all the facts of the case so I do not take sides having been a para legal in the past. I will be happy to post both sides of the issue, and let both the courts and the public make their own respective verdicts.  Gloucester, VA Links and News.  GVLN Website.