Do you think Karma follows the Catholic Court schedule and dances for the black robed monkeys?
TYB
The English (Anglican) Church taxed Virginia 16,000 pounds of tobacco annually (paid from George washington's Plantation) until it didn't.
"The dried leaves of the tobacco plant became the major cash crop in colonial Virginia after John Rolfe brought the seeds of a South American variety, Nicotiana tabacum, to Virginia in 1612. Oronoco tobacco, named for the Venezuelan valley of its origins, became the widest grown variety of tobacco grown in Virginia. For much of the 17th and 18th centuries, Virginia's taxes were paid and penalties accessed by the courts in pounds of tobacco. Colonial government expenses were paid in tobacco. The Government-established Anglican Church clergy were, by law, paid 16,000 pounds of tobacco annually. The vestry, a local governing body responsible for overseeing the established church, estimated how many pounds of tobacco was necessary for their parish needs, and then required families in the church’s neighborhood, whether Anglican or not, to pay a certain amount of tobacco for every member of each household.1 "
https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/tobacco/
In 2024 America, tobacco taxes pay for public services like 911, which service non-tax paying Institutions like Churches, Government, and Hospital Buildings.
They can just stay home and pray about things when the bars that allowing smoking finally get re-opened, instead of showing up and Karening about.
Nope.
Not anymore.
There are no more bars.
Just musty old churches that sit empty 6.5 days a week.
>The Invisible Enemy
ONE
COMMON KNOWLEDGE
It is has become ‘common knowledge’ that smoking is one of the worst things you can possibly do to yourself; ‘all the experts agree’. Of course, ‘all the experts’ once agreed that masturbation caused blindness, that homosexuality was a disease, and that marijuana turned people into homicidal maniacs. In the 1970s and 80s British doctors told mothers to put their babies to sleep face-down. Cot deaths soared, until a campaign by one nurse succeeded in changing this policy, which we now know to have claimed something like 15,000 lives. Most medical practitioners, institutions, and lobby groups are hard-working and wellintentioned. But they can just as easily be clueless, biased, or corrupt, not to mention increasingly, and worryingly, embedded with the pharmaceutical industry. Yet while presidents and prime ministers are routinely castigated as liars and crooks, it’s rare to encounter even what I would describe as healthy scepticism towards health professionals. Why should this be so? I believe that we have to put our faith in someone, and that as our faith in political and religious leaders has declined, we have become not only excessively reverent towards doctors and scientists, but increasingly willing to allow them to dictate our lifestyles and laws. Health is seen as an unqualified good. Who can be against ‘health’? Likewise, ‘science’ is equated with integrity and certainty. It has become our religion.
Are you really just playing dense for the sake of dragging digs out of anon?
Paid in tobacco is like "paid in gold"
Its a valuable commodity
So the Mafia wants its cut
Call it a "Sin Tax", a "Value Added Tax", or "Necessary Evil"…whatever phrase satisfies the 51% that it's a "good idea" and ensures the uninterrupted flow of funds to the Monarchy.
No, everything is perfectly normal.
Because the Church considers bread and wine sacred, but the smell of "burnt vegetable matter" was detested by Cain's Daddy, so everyone is supposed to hate burnt vegetable matter or else die in a fire and spend eternity in hell?
Why do you think Brainwashed Morons taxed Tobacco and Whiskey?
The Two Penny Act was a law enacted in 1758 by the House of Burgesses which affected the compensation of Anglican ministers in the British colony of Virginia. From the controversy surrounding it arose the Parson's Cause trial, which is regarded as an important event in the history of American Revolution.
The act was issued after three years of drought which produced a low-yielding tobacco crop. The one-year measure allowed Anglican ministers' salaries to be paid at a fixed rate of two pence per pound of tobacco, as tobacco was often used as currency. The market rate at the time was set at four to six pence per pound of tobacco. Once the loss of value was factored in, a clergyman was receiving about one-third of his normal, stipulated salary. The colony's councilors had approved and, with the House of Burgesses, convinced Governor Francis Fauquier to allow the act to go into effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Penny_Act
The Virginia Company colony was looking for gold and spices, and land to grow crops, however they would find no fortunes in the area, and struggled to maintain a food supply.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Virginia
Ya think?
The white hats will keep playing the black hats as long as people tune in to watch them on FOX news or the NFL network, or the Praying Medic Podcast….wherever non=critical thinkers tune in to get the lastest "decodes"
Or they stop living a natural life, and listen to preachers and doctors who coax them into an early grave….Raptured…
"Can you hear me now?"
>Tobacco is so easy to grow.
But difficult to cure and store if you don't have the right climate.
Thanks, but Synthetic Niacin (B3) is a mirror molecule (chirality) to Nicotinic Acid, and after multiple surgical interventions, anon is permanently altered with catastrophic losses that a plastic pill can't replace.
Anon enjoys his cigarettes now, instead of feeling guilty, and that's made a lot of difference in learning to accept limitations in life.
"Tell me more, Anon"
>McD's give shift meals?
Not when Anon worked there…just 50% employee discounts while on break.
But "Free meals" were awarded for working extra shifts if the Manager was in a pinch for labor.
What’s the hold-up? Las Vegas industry leaders share plans for pot lounges to open in 2024
Sasha Loftis
Fri, January 12, 2024 at 12:52 AM CST
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Cannabis consumption lounges have been a hot topic in Las Vegas since the Nevada Legislature legalized them in 2021; but as we start the new year, many wonder why we haven’t seen any locations in business yet.
Industry leaders told 8 News Now they are confident movement will come in the next few months.
“I think this really is going to be the year,” Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom told 8 News Now.
Las Vegas’ first regulated cannabis lounge to open ‘later this year’
Segerblom is one of several lawmakers hopeful for the future, so what has caused this recent hold-up?
“Remember no one has really done these before,” Layke Martin, Executive Director of the Nevada Cannabis Association said. “Certainly not here.”
Martin explained a few factors pumping the brakes on Politics Now with host John Langeler this week.
Is it legal to open a Cannabis-friendly hotel in Las Vegas?
“It’s ventilation, it’s security, it’s safe consumption and driving, it’s training,” Martin said. “Those are the types of regulations that we’re talking about.”
She said future lounge locations also come into play through this process, as both the city and county have had to add ordinances in addition to state law.
However, she and Commissioner Segerblom said things are expected to get going, with locations to open in the next few months.
“For the millions of tourists coming to Las Vegas,” Martin explained. “I think that these will really be able to provide a place for them to go.”
Both said they are looking forward to the benefits these changes should bring to Southern Nevada.
“It really is going to be a big year,” Segerblom concluded. “And a big part of our economy.”
https://news.yahoo.com/hold-las-vegas-industry-leaders-065242915.html
Still waiting on the DEA Rescheduling?
30+ years ago employees got half priced meals, but only while on break from an actual working shift.
I worked in a newer store for a Franchisee that owned 5-6 stores in the area, and IIRC "staff priced" meals were pretty common locally for FF employees benefit package, in addition to minimum wage and uniforms. Anon's McD's experience was pretty good. Didn't get fired a few time I should've because I had a good relationship with the GM and Day Shift Managers.
>The Seven Headed Cobra
That's too bad. Anon had a couple of Swing Shift Managers that loved finding infractions and assigning baseboard cleaning duties, like Cinderella's Step-Mother, but they really only did that to people who needed a break from yakking instead of working. Anon did all the shit duties like filtering grease, dishes, breaking down cardboard and hauling trash. Did the Maintenance Man duties for a few months while they were in-between full timers. Always helped unload the truck, and worked every station because the variety was nice. I did have to suffer under a whole Morning Shift of 50 Year Old ladies who were very territorial and not kind to Night Shifters who got called in to cover their shift's labor shortfalls.
Bitch, bitch, bitch…Night Shift didn't do this, Night Shift fucked up that…
Typical stuff though. Good managers made it a really cool place to work for the most part.
>thats gross anon!
WTF is wrong with you?
When anon was 14, anon worked for an Old man sweeping the shop floor, pumping gas, & cleaning up messes for $1.85/hr
Used to could earn a $0.05 a bale for hauling hay, but haying season only lasts so long.
Spending money is some sort of freedom, ya know?