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Albert A. Michelson - Career and Influence
Amish Farmers
Betsy Devine's Algebraic Limerick
A Better City
Blacklist - Kirk Douglas’ revisionist history
Blood Oranges
A Brief History of Iron and Steel Production
Citibank in South Dakota
Classic Kit: Sprengel pump
Climate Change Explanation
Cuba
Cuba, Part 2
DKnight MagicBox II Speaker
Don Carroll Bliss Reports From India, 1925
El Chapo Speaks
Essential Science Fiction Novels
El Chapo and the Secret History of the Heroin Cri...
Emergence
Flak Guns In The Brenner Pass By Frank B. Dean, 380th, 310th
The Governing Cancer of Our Time
How FBI super snitch Chuck Blazer went from steali...
I Dropped Acid and Saw Into the Future: My Surreal First Time At CES by Erin Gloria Ryan
If You’re Not Paranoid, You’re Crazy
INVESTING DIMES: FAHRENHEIT 451
Issues relating to the deceased
Jingpeng Pass - Route Description
Jury Nullification: The Right of Free Americans
Life On The Anti-Aircraft Gun-sites WW2 by Joyce S...
Midnight in Europe - Alan Furst
Modern Day Slavery, Part 1 - Used and Abused
Modern Day Slavery, Part 2 - How They Come
Modern Day Slavery Part 3 - The Real Cost
My Mathematical Moments of Fame
A note of appreciation from the rich
Notes on Coalescent by Stephen Baxter
Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Dead, Vader Says
Old Stuff
On hygiene, intellectual and otherwise
Phantasmagoria
Rick-in-Billy
Rosetta Orbital Period
Swinging on the Burj Khalifa
Text of President Obama’s Speech in Hiroshima, Jap...
Tunes
Tron Battle dot C
Veronal Poisoning
Saving Paris From Islamism, by Barton Swaim
Sammy's Linto Aermacchi
Spy agency pulls back cloak on secret Cold War sat...
Stomach growling on a diet? Here’s what and when t...
Switchbacks over Stevens Pass
Table of Places
The Tunnel under Havana Harbor
Water Injection
Weight
When I Landed The War Was Over
Why Prewar Car Engines Need Bearings Made From Scr...
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Sticker Shock
NYC: $12 for a pack of smokes!?! $5 for the Sunday Paper!?! At least the beer is cold. And big. Picture stolen from Burro Hall. Last time I noticed smokes were $5 locally. Seems like the older I get, the faster inflation goes (runs? inflates?).
$5 of the price in NY is inflation.
ReplyDeleteAnother $2 is for the joy of being in the Big Apple.
The remainder is taxes.
Needless to say, cigarett smuggling is alive and well in NYFC.
"New York City has a citywide tax of $1.50, making the combined state and local rate $5.85, the highest in the nation."
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_taxes_in_the_United_States
Eight bucks in Hyde Park back in '10.