June 4, 2010
Take a look at what business owners told Newsday about how New York’s proposed tobacco tax increase will destroy small businesses in our state. Many of these shops are struggling, with some seeing a 30 percent drop in sales following last year’s tax increase on non-cigarette tobacco products, from 37 percent to 46 percent. “If we are going to go out of business, they are going to collect zero.”
Read What NY Small Business Owners Have to Say...
June 2, 2010
I want to point out some of the more nauseating facts about this billion dollar organization that should make everyone’s blood boil – especially those whom have somehow been touched by this insidious disease called cancer.
ACS has been part and parcel of the destruction of wonderful small businesses, including the shutting down of thousands of bodegas over the past decade. It seems like their only success is to lobby for higher tobacco taxes which have put our wonderful New York businesses out of business and have led to an illegal cigarette and cigar market that are making the criminals very rich and honest hardworking New Yorkers very poor and out of business.
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