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muddles the mind trying to figure out all you people who constantly cry that the government should not be in people's individual lives but then decide it is your duty to decide whether an individual smokes or has an abortion.

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the Internet and Native American stores, according to economist Brian P. O'Connor of Ridgewood Economic Associates. The state is losing $900 million a year by failing to collect excise taxes on 50 million cartons of cigarettes sold in New York, according to a report released Tuesday.

The report from the Ridgewood, N.J., firm for a coalition of food industry and convenience store associations is perhaps the most thorough analysis on lost tobacco revenues since New York began dramatically raising its cigarette taxes in recent years. It shows the state lost nearly $1.5 billion over the past two years and the losses are rising.
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of sales tax collection. Pataki has been reluctant to use his authority to enforce tax laws.
"I can't answer why government isn't doing anything," said Dan Finkle, president of Finkle Distributors of Johnstown. "Taxpaying businesses are at a disadvantage and the failure of those businesses means even less taxes are being paid to municipalities."

Calling itself the Fair Application of Cigarette Taxes (FACT), the coalition contends Native Americans in New York have an unfair advantage because they don't tax any sales. Indian stores can be required to collect taxes on items sold to non-Native Americans. The study found the majority of the lost dollars comes from 35 million cartons of cigarettes sold over the Internet, through 800 numbers and at some of the 80 smoke shops run by Indians in New York.

Mark Emery, spokesman for the Oneida Indian Nation said the Oneida stores are checked frequently for compliance on sales to minors and staff are trained to obey strict rules. He said the cigarettes are sold with a 5 percent surcharge used to fund tribal programs, so prices are competitive to taxable stores.
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themselves FACT because a lot of this is fiction," said Emery. The coalition also inferred that the shops aren't necessarily guarding against sales to minors.
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uncollected taxes on gasoline sold at Native American stores, added James Calvin, president of the convenience store association.
O'Connor said that with the state facing multibillion dollar budget deficits, it must figure out a way to collect from Indian stores and the more than 200 Internet sites selling tobacco products.
Kevin Quinn, a state budget division spokesman, said the administration would look at the group's recommendations and that, "We're concerned about the loss of revenue.