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Old 02-12-2009, 09:29 AM
 
Location: South Portland, Maine
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FYI. it appears as though the "Social Republic of Maine" is looking to raise revenues by enforcing the laws regarding the transportation of liquore across state lines.

I Heard they are actually working undercover. IDK the specifics but there is a limit on how much liquor, beer, wine ect you can transport across state lines.

I do not travell to NH to buy stuff but on occasion while travelling through I have stopped to buy stuff knowing that I couldn't find it here.
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Old 02-12-2009, 09:49 AM
 
Location: Teton Valley Idaho
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I never thought about transportation across state lines before! I just assumed there wasn't even a law regarding "how much" etc... geez....

sometimes don't you just think there must be a more effective way their time could be used? After all, we have "dry" towns in Maine!! maybe they should sit on those city limits and be policing those 6 packs--or worse! a CASE---brought in!!
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Old 02-12-2009, 12:00 PM
 
Location: 43.55N 69.58W
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I'm pretty sure that this law has been in place for quite a while. I'm not sure of the legal amounts you are allowed to carry over though. I'm thinking it was (2) 1/2 gals of liquor per adult in the car.
I guess it might be worth the savings if you lived in southern Maine to take Gram & Gramp out for a Sunday drive?

Funny that they've just now started enforcing it. I wonder if the same law applies to those traveling south into MA.
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Old 02-12-2009, 01:47 PM
 
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Re transportation into MA, quite a few years ago--in the 80's, if I recall correctly--I heard rumors about MA state troopers parking in unmarked cars at New Hampshire's big state liquor stores along the interstates, just over the border from MA, looking for people in cars with MA plates making purchases then driving southbound, describing these cars to troopers in marked cruisers waiting across the border. Seems to me I may have read something in the paper about this as well. From what I heard, the practice of using troopers in unmarked cars to observe the purchases ended because it was discouraged, shall we say, by the NH state troopers. As I understood it, in MA it was a use tax issue. They would pull over drivers who had been observed making purchases at the NH state stores in order to report that these people needed to pay the use tax on an out-of-state purchase.
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Old 02-12-2009, 02:58 PM
 
Location: Maine's garden spot
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I'm pretty sure that this law has been in place for quite a while. I'm not sure of the legal amounts you are allowed to carry over though. I'm thinking it was (2) 1/2 gals of liquor per adult in the car.
I guess it might be worth the savings if you lived in southern Maine to take Gram & Gramp out for a Sunday drive?

Funny that they've just now started enforcing it. I wonder if the same law applies to those traveling south into MA.


There's been rumors of this being enforced for quite some time. Mass. has been or is looking to do the same. Howie Carr was commenting on a past governor sending cops to the liquor stores to get license numbers, just last week. This was by an earlier governor
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Old 02-12-2009, 03:07 PM
 
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FYI. it appears as though the "Social Republic of Maine" is looking to raise revenues by enforcing the laws regarding the transportation of liquore across state lines.
JMO, but it's about time!
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Old 02-12-2009, 03:43 PM
 
Location: North Georgia
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Wow, I've never heard of that before, having a ban or limit on briging liqour across the border. Is it because NH doesn't have tax? Is it illegal to take it into Vermont too?
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Old 02-12-2009, 03:45 PM
 
Location: Lebanon, OH
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Re transportation into MA, quite a few years ago--in the 80's, if I recall correctly--I heard rumors about MA state troopers parking in unmarked cars at New Hampshire's big state liquor stores along the interstates, just over the border from MA, looking for people in cars with MA plates making purchases then driving southbound, describing these cars to troopers in marked cruisers waiting across the border. Seems to me I may have read something in the paper about this as well. From what I heard, the practice of using troopers in unmarked cars to observe the purchases ended because it was discouraged, shall we say, by the NH state troopers.
It's a similar situation between KY & OH, taxes are a lot less in KY, especially on cigarettes, I pay $26/carton in KY, $40/carton in Ohio.

I heard smuggling cigarettes by boat from Eastport to NB was a growing cottage industry at one time.
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Old 02-12-2009, 04:03 PM
 
Location: M. Township, MN
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What's the big deal? How much of a difference could a case of beer or a bottle of vodka be between the states? I don't understand?
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Old 02-12-2009, 04:13 PM
 
Location: Lebanon, OH
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What's the big deal? How much of a difference could a case of beer or a bottle of vodka be between the states? I don't understand?
The greedy states lose their tax revenue.
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