When the tobacco tax shot up at the beginning of April, a pouch of the rolling tobacco I prefer went from $5.70 to $11.99. That's right: it doubled, overnight. Many of us smokers have been bitching and grumping over this, but it's not a subject I really wanted to discuss here. I'd rather discuss doubling the price of energy by taxing it to death (I'm not even half joking on that point). However, New Hampshire has set a new standard with its excise taxes: a man was charged $23,148,855,308,184,500 for a pack of cigarettes. And of course, a $15 over limit fee. Also, of course, both the bank and the card company refuse to explain what happened, both pointing to the other as the go-to-guys for questions.
Just think: we could pay off the national debt roughly 2000 times over for the price of a pack of cigarettes. If we have the right Visa Card.
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I'd rather we "accidentally" hit some rich guy buying a yacht with charges like that.
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