t0nythelover Posted October 25 Report Share Posted October 25 first cigarrette taxes, which the city made no money from. then the raise in car booting and towing fees, and soon to come an increase in the cost for tokens/metrocards to 2 dollars a fare. sux to be in a recession... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crowina Posted October 25 Report Share Posted October 25 i hate to give you old news but they want to raise the subway and put fees on the east bridges too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madrusso Posted October 25 Report Share Posted October 25 its gonna be like fucking London soon.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rad_Z Posted October 25 Report Share Posted October 25 yep, Expensive like shit!Hopefully that'll be enuf to get out of the deficit that they're in....but probably NOT! All they'll do is piss off more ppl!Rad_ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codica3 Posted October 26 Report Share Posted October 26 NYC was always so much more expensive than everywhere else though.. I remember fuckin' McDonalds.. I was so pissed off that I had to pay like $7 for an extra value meal that I get in Jersey for like $4.25. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshwa1 Posted October 28 Report Share Posted October 28 coat check at ARC, 4 bucks an item. i checked my umbrella too fri. thinking ofcourse they would stick in the umbrella in a sleve of the jacket or soemthing. but no. I get FRiggin charged for the umbrella too. NYC is getting wack. coat check sooo muchhhhh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheendawg Posted October 28 Report Share Posted October 28 Yeah, they got me at the fuckin coat check last night! I had a big purse and a coat, and they would even hang the purse on the coat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr0ne Posted October 28 Report Share Posted October 28 Originally posted by t0nythelover first cigarrette taxes, which the city made no money from. during the first month of the tax increase, cigarette sales went down 47%. REVENUE on the other hand, went from 2.3 million last july to 23 million this july. that's a tenfold increase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sosultan Posted October 28 Report Share Posted October 28 Originally posted by dr0ne during the first month of the tax increase, cigarette sales went down 47%. REVENUE on the other hand, went from 2.3 million last july to 23 million this july. that's a tenfold increase. where do you get your stats from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Twilo Beauty Posted October 28 Report Share Posted October 28 Originally posted by madrusso its gonna be like fucking London soon.... ????The only reason London is pricy is because the American Dollar is worth jack shit there!You can still get a pack of cigs for 3 pounds. -iliana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr0ne Posted October 28 Report Share Posted October 28 Originally posted by sosultan where do you get your stats from? 8/7/02Tax in New York Cuts Cigarette SalesBy Michael Cooper August 6, 2002 Cigarette Tax, Highest in Nation, Cuts Sales in City By MICHAEL COOPER The number of cigarettes sold in New York City has been cut almost in half since the city began charging the highest cigarette tax in the nation last month, driving the price of many cigarettes to $7.50 a pack, according to figures released yesterday. Only 15,630,000 packs of cigarettes were sold in the city during July, the first month of the tax, which represents a 47 percent drop from the 29,220,000 packs sold last July, according to Sam Miller, a spokesman for the city's Department of Finance. The Bloomberg administration raised the city's cigarette tax from 8 cents a pack to $1.50 a pack, which must be paid on top of the state's $1.50-a-pack tax. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has long described the measure as more of a public health initiative, intended to get people to quit smoking, than a moneymaker. But revenue is up, too: the tax earned $23 million last month, up from $2.3 million last July. The city keeps only $12.3 million of that; the rest goes to the state. Just how many people are quitting, and how many are buying their cigarettes out of state, over the Internet or on Indian reservations, is difficult to assess. Calls to the New York State Smokers' Quitline, a toll-free help line that serves the city and the state and usually gets 51,000 calls a year, went up by 12 per cent last month, said Dr. Michael Cummings, who oversees the line, (888) 609-6292. "We would attribute it to the tax; the tax is what changed," Dr. Cummings said. "But most people will be quitting on their own. Most people don't call the Quitline." Shanti Lowe, 32, who smoked for 16 years, said that the new tax pushed her to quit. Ms. Lowe said that she did not quit when her mother, Cortnie, quit seven or eight years ago, or even when her mother, a project manager at the city's Health Department, began working on anti-smoking campaigns. But she said $7.50 a day was just too much. So she went on the patch. "I bought two last packs at the old price the day before the tax went into effect," said Ms. Lowe, who is entering graduate school this fall. "I quit July 3 and went on the patch. Now, every week, I transfer the $50 I saved by not smoking from my checking account to my savings account. I'm going to buy a printer with that money." But many smokers are going elsewhere. Harry Wallace, an owner of the Poospatuck Smoke Shop, on the small Poospatuck Reservation on Long Island near Mastic, sells Marlboros for $3.90 a pack. Mr. Wallace said that he was seeing some new customers, but not a tremendous increase, and that it was unclear if it was because of the new tax or simply the crowds that flock to Long Island every summer. "We're still trying to determine if it's the summer or the tax thing," he said. "There are a lot of Web sites now selling cigarettes from other states and reservations. The equation is different now. And with all the anti-smoking laws, there are fewer smokers, so we are fighting for a smaller piece of the pie." Richard Lipsky, a lobbyist for the Neighborhood Retail Alliance, an association of bodega owners and greengrocers, said that he thinks more smokers are going out of state, shopping over the Internet or buying smuggled cigarettes than are quitting. "I don't think anyone's quitting,"he said. "The only people who are going to quit are going to be the small-store owners who can't make ends meet." Raj Patel, 47, who owns the Optimo Cigar Store across the street from City Hall with his uncle Jay, said that he was selling 60 percent fewer cigarettes. "If people don't come in, how can you sell them magazines, how can you sell them soda, how can you sell the chips?" he asked yesterday,complaining that it could become hard to make the rent. But the city actually made more money from the smoking tax last month than it projected, meaning that cigarette sales were not driven down quite as far as officials expected. Mr. Miller, the Finance Department spokesman, said that the $12.3 million share that the city collected is more than a million dollars higher than it had estimated. The bottom line is fewer cigarettes are being sold, and the city is making more money. "The mayor is very pleased," said Jordan Barowitz, a mayoral spokesman. "We sold half as many packs of cigarettes, and revenues have gone up fivefold." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sosultan Posted October 28 Report Share Posted October 28 thanx drone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madrusso Posted October 29 Report Share Posted October 29 Originally posted by iliana ????The only reason London is pricy is because the American Dollar is worth jack shit there!You can still get a pack of cigs for 3 pounds. -iliana Public transportation there is still one of the most expensive in Europe, and cab fare is like 20 squid only within the cirlce, I'd say its expensive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t0nythelover Posted October 29 Author Report Share Posted October 29 Originally posted by madrusso Public transportation there is still one of the most expensive in Europe, and cab fare is like 20 squid only within the cirlce, I'd say its expensive i think you mean quid not squid... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitaldan Posted October 29 Report Share Posted October 29 Originally posted by iliana ????The only reason London is pricy is because the American Dollar is worth jack shit there!You can still get a pack of cigs for 3 pounds. -iliana oh jeez, don't get this girl started on cigarettes again... lord knows how useful and informative the last never ending thread on this shit was Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twilo Beauty Posted October 29 Report Share Posted October 29 Originally posted by madrusso Public transportation there is still one of the most expensive in Europe, and cab fare is like 20 squid only within the cirlce, I'd say its expensive :huh: Don't exaggerate. Cab Rides in London are not cheap but they are also reserved for tourists. Real Londoners rely on the Underground and buses to get around- both of them moderately priced.-iliana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotelie Posted October 29 Report Share Posted October 29 Plus you have to pay 50 freggin dollars to go see PvD.Back home he is spinning for less than half of this. And those are "legendary" six hour sets, tooI know there is another post for this, but I am still pissed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpoppanils Posted October 29 Report Share Posted October 29 Originally posted by t0nythelover i think you mean quid not squid... LMFAO!i'd have to agree with iliana on this one (i'm as shocked as you are, trust me)if you need a cab in london you take a minicab that usually charges a flat rate. Black cabs charge by time, not by distance covered.....london underground may seem expensive....but you have to remember that when youre in london you transfer between trains a lot....much more than u do here...and if the new fare hike goes through, london underground stops looking more expensive than NYC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpoppanils Posted October 29 Report Share Posted October 29 i would also like to add that last year i paid 10 pounds (about $15) to see Carl Cox at Fabric....and now about one year later i'm paying $50.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t0nythelover Posted October 29 Author Report Share Posted October 29 Originally posted by iliana :huh: Don't exaggerate. Cab Rides in London are not cheap but they are also reserved for tourists. Real Londoners rely on the Underground and buses to get around- both of them moderately priced.-iliana i dunno bout that, my gf is from london and she cabbed it all the time.i like ur sig and quote. queens wont be the same without papa johns fireworks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjcbebe Posted October 29 Report Share Posted October 29 Originally posted by codica3 NYC was always so much more expensive than everywhere else though.. I remember fuckin' McDonalds.. I was so pissed off that I had to pay like $7 for an extra value meal that I get in Jersey for like $4.25. It sounds riduculous but that is so so true. They also charge extra for extra sauces like BBQ and honey mustard. City living has always been a rip in my own thoughts.. That why I don't live there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpoppanils Posted October 29 Report Share Posted October 29 Originally posted by jjcbebe It sounds riduculous but that is so so true. They also charge extra for extra sauces like BBQ and honey mustard. City living has always been a rip in my own thoughts.. That why I don't live there. oh...thats another thing...some fast food places in europe charge extra for ketchup packets.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotelie Posted October 29 Report Share Posted October 29 Originally posted by bigpoppanils oh...thats another thing...some fast food places in europe charge extra for ketchup packets.... But they serve beeeeeer : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madrusso Posted October 30 Report Share Posted October 30 Originally posted by bigpoppanils LMFAO!i'd have to agree with iliana on this one (i'm as shocked as you are, trust me)if you need a cab in london you take a minicab that usually charges a flat rate. Black cabs charge by time, not by distance covered.....london underground may seem expensive....but you have to remember that when youre in london you transfer between trains a lot....much more than u do here...and if the new fare hike goes through, london underground stops looking more expensive than NYC well, from all the places in Europe, London was the one where I spent most amount of money and didnt buy anythingbut whats the difference anyway, you all live here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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