Ok so this was on a trusted current affairs program here and its called the Tobacco wars .
The crooks have set up shops everywhere selling illegal smokes for a THIRD OF THE PRICE OF NORMAL. Ok so I smoke a packet of 20s at 34.95 a packet AU 30 of that goes straight to the government.
They were asked you cant control the illegal market That's the crooks you let in the country in the first place. Why don't you cut the taxes and excise so people can afford the legal ones? Ohh no we can't do that as we have 20% of people that smoke and we want them to stop lol What a lot of BS they only care about how much they will lose.
Journalist than asks well don't you think all you taxes are the cause of the illegal industrie? And that 20 % is off isn't it? As most people buy the cheaper illegal so they don't count on your statistics? Well we can't see that hum hum and we have no control over it lol What a bunch of ****ers.
This are the people that have ruined a once prosperous young country, Since 75 the population has increased from 16 mil to 27 mil and 7.5 mil from the 11 increase are Middle eastern indians and chinese.And we all know what they bring have posted my views before.
Australia is number one on taxes for smokes beer and petrol in the world.