One day to go and the Governor is no longer talking in Custer-like terms about his September 1st imposition of the tax on cigarettes shipped to Indian reservations for resale.
That's a switch from a couple days ago when Governor Paterson said State Police had warned him blood would flow over the thorny issue of shaking down cigarette customers for $4.35 a pack both on and off the "res".
The Governor accused the Indians of destroying the Upstate economy as well.
For their part, the Indians have been more temperate in their rhetoric.
As some of our commentors have pointed out, tensions over this issue provide some opportunity for overtime by State Police who will be charged with enforcement of the tax edicts.....Let's just hope nobody uses the issue to produce violence.
Cancel the uprising - Paterson not expecting a violent reaction to cigarette tax collections
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Think of the OT for the State Police
There sure are a lot of retards that read and comment on this blog. The overtime has already been brought up. Hell, it was even brought up in this very article you are commenting on.
I see similar retarded behavior in other comments on other threads. They restate a point that was already made earlier or make some stupid personal attack on a candidate, such as Doheney is gay or a womanizer or Hoffman is goofy looking.
Mayor, maybe instead of qualifying the posts with barely legible letters to copy, you could give a quiz question, such as having to add two fractions. That would get rid of those posters for sure. I grantee the previous poster could not answer correctly, the sum of 1/2 plus 1/3.
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