I’m wondering what us small retailers can do.
Come April about a third of my biz is going to slowly drop off, I suspect, because of the asinine cig tax-my customers here in this perpetual economically challenged region cannot afford it, neither can I. (my wholesalers don’t give me that much of a break with tobacco products.)
On a personal level I intend to stop smoking, to me it’s a patriotic act...funny how that has become the only convincing reason to quit for me.
” I’m wondering what us small retailers can do. “
A couple of quick thoughts come immediately to mind —
Barter...
Go ‘Cash only’ — do away with checks or plastic....
Sell products from local ‘cottage industry’ people...
Once your thinking ventures even slightly ‘out-of-the-box’, (Yes, this takes a bit of courage) the possibilites will become apparent....
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“ On a personal level I intend to stop smoking, to me it’s a patriotic act...funny how that has become the only convincing reason to quit for me. “
Especially in the context of this thread — knuckling under to the Nanny-Staters most assuredly isn’t a ‘patriotic act’.. It’s merely the ‘path of least resistance’....
There are any number of valid reasons to quit (and I say this as a smoker, myself), but this is nothing more than rationalization of abject surrender....
I’m quitting, too. I refuse to pay for this crap if I don’t have to.
Ever notice that in every situation where communist rule has done well for itself, the population has a ready supply of liquor and cigarettes? A sober population is not a supple population.
Taxing liquor and cigarettes into extinction may well backfire on these idiots.