Subject: Re: [LPNY DISCUSS] No-smoking waivers exist in a thick haze
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:04:34 -0500
To:        <lpny_discuss@yahoogroups.com>
From:     Bob Armstrong <bob@cosy.com>
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 07:23:51 -0500, Jacob Rieper wrote:
>=A0Bar owners across New York are getting ready to plead poverty=
 to state and
>=A0county health departments in hopes of getting relief from the=
 statewide
>=A0smoking ban enacted in July.

 This is what the State loves - reducing citizens to pleading
 disability to obtain a sop 

>=A0On Monday, Schenectady County began offering waiver=
 applications, and
>=A0handed out three dozen by Tuesday afternoon. The applications=
 require a
>=A0$150 fee.
 
 for which it extorts a bribe .

 Within a couple of years it will be $150 per month .

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