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Kenny - 17 Dec 2004 00:05 GMT

Well, we expect or medicines to cost more as time goes on but now we
have to worry about Chocolate too. Hershey Food Corp. said it will
raise wholesale prices to offset higher raw material and other
production cost. It was announced today that the price for the
company's standard chocolate bar will go up 5.8 percent, effective
immediately and an increase on packaged chocolates will be effective
Feb. 14, the company said. What next???

~Kenny

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d'huit - 17 Dec 2004 05:27 GMT

> Well, we expect or medicines to cost more as time goes on but now we
> have to worry about Chocolate too. Hershey Food Corp. said it will
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>
> ~Kenny

i'll tell you what next! our state is going to impose a "sin tax" of five
cents a can on diet soda! a "sin tax" on diet pop---can you imagine? but
the "sin tax" will not be imposed on triple-x pornography, nor on "art"
magazines. you know the magazines---the ones "only purchased for the
articles" and not the centerfolds.

kate

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Nann Bell - 17 Dec 2004 14:51 GMT

> i'll tell you what next! our state is going to impose a "sin tax" of five
> cents a can on diet soda! a "sin tax" on diet pop---can you imagine? but
> the "sin tax" will not be imposed on triple-x pornography, nor on "art"
> magazines. you know the magazines---the ones "only purchased for the
> articles" and not the centerfolds.

are you serious?!??!?! That is truly nuts. If anything, it should be on
NON-diet soda, make the folks drinking sugar all day long pay. Still, I
can't see additional tax on any soda, especially calling it a sin tax. I
guess I'd be drinking a lot more Crystal Light and coffee. Hey! who funded
the push for that tax? Cynical me is wondering..........

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d'huit - 17 Dec 2004 17:28 GMT

>> i'll tell you what next! our state is going to impose a "sin tax" of
>> five
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> funded
> the push for that tax? Cynical me is wondering..........

i thought it was nutty too. i don't know, yet, whose brain burp this idea
was or if there was any lobbying or what lobby was behind it. haven't
checked into it yet. i just caught the information on our local radio
station yesterday. will be checking it out, though.

off the cuff, it sounds like something our county rebumblingcan gov't would
come up with though---like their "65% of any 5 acre or more privately owned
parcel automatically becomes county land which the landowner can no longer
do anything to or with, but the owner still gets to pay taxes and liability
insurance on" idea, to circumvent paying land owners for their land for
public projects; and their banning studded tires (with no exclusions for
gimps), forcing people to chain up when the snow flies (as if gimps could
put chains on tires at home) idea. we have some dim lightbulbs in the gov't
idea department here.

kate

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Nann Bell - 18 Dec 2004 04:56 GMT

> like their "65% of any 5 acre or more privately owned
> parcel automatically becomes county land which the landowner can no longer
> do anything to or with, but the owner still gets to pay taxes and liability
> insurance on" idea, to circumvent paying land owners for their land for
> public projects;

65%?!?!?!?!?!?! That is truly excessive abuse of the theory of eminent
domain. I hope they get clobbered in the courts for that one, though the
battle will cost the taxpayers money. Around here, an idea like that could
get you shot! Don't mess with the farms or the hunting camps! For that
matter, don't mess with our maple surgaring friends.

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JLee - 18 Dec 2004 08:11 GMT

"Nann Bell" <hanbellGOGATORS@earthlink.net> wrote in message

> I guess I'd be drinking a lot more Crystal Light and coffee.

I'll try nearly anything once, but THAT sounds like a disgusting combination
<grin>

Janet N.

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Nann Bell - 18 Dec 2004 13:52 GMT

> "Nann Bell" <hanbellGOGATORS@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Janet N.

ROFL!!!!! naw, nothing but half & half in my precious coffee..........

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firechief - 17 Dec 2004 07:32 GMT

> Well, we expect or medicines to cost more as time goes on but now
> we have to worry about Chocolate too. Hershey Food Corp. said it
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> immediately and an increase on packaged chocolates will be
> effective Feb. 14, the company said. What next???

As the Kingston Trio sang, "They're rioting in Africa......"
and the cacao/chocolate trade is shut down indefinitely.

Read that in the financial/business news a month ago.

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Nann Bell - 17 Dec 2004 14:51 GMT

>> Well, we expect or medicines to cost more as time goes on but now
>> we have to worry about Chocolate too. Hershey Food Corp. said it
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
>> immediately and an increase on packaged chocolates will be
>> effective Feb. 14, the company said. What next???

It's just as well........... I put myself on a diet this weekend as my
clothes were getting tighter. Found out yesterday at the doctor's that I
need that diet even more than I realized. :( It's been tough keeping things
in balance with all the moving and changing availability of exercise options.

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