Baja Duty Free

So if you don’t know about duty free shopping by know, get with the program. Essential stop if you are spending a weekend down in Mexico, or if you’re a local resident. Basically, you go here, and pay 2/​3rds to ½ (on good deals) of the price of booze that you’d pay in the states. Why? Basically, as you know, a good percentage of the price you pay for booze is tax to the gov’t. Gotta fund Iraq somehow… your property taxes and gasoline taxes aren’t enough to fund a 1 trillion dollar war… remember, only two things in life are guaranteed…
So here they’ve got all the standard liquors (rum, tequila, vodka, gin, whiskey, you name it). Example, liter of Captain Morgan is about 8 bucks here. In the states, you’re looking at probably double. They also have cases of beer, wine, etc… case of Bohemia (24 pack) will run $ 16.
Fine jewelry, sunglasses, etc. are also available for purchase, although I haven’t bought anything like that yet. Just get me my drink. To me, it seems like the jewelry/​perfume/​accessories are all priced similary to something in a retail store. But then again, I don’t know how to price luxury items all that well.
Yeah, so you get your bottle of Cazadores or Captain Morgan and case of beer, buy it, they meet you out front, and then escort you to Mexico. They want to make sure you aren’t taking your tax free booze to your buddy’s kegger over in La Jolla. Then that, my fellow Unilocaler, would be cheating the US government out of their rightfully earned tax dollars. That my fellow Unilocaler, is tax avasion, and punishable by law.
The thinking in this store is, you shouldn’t pay taxes to the US gov’t if you ain’t gonna be consuming the booze on their US land. Thus, more reason to come to Mexico and get totally blasted on ultra cheap booze. (As if the dollar shots of cheap tequila death at the border night clubs iisn’t enough for you already.)
Does the concept work? I’m a walking example.
One more reason why Mexico is da sh*t.
Viva Mexico!!!