Posted on 05/21/2009 2:09:35 PM PDT by Drango
The House on Thursday approved tougher enforcement measures against contraband cigarette sales that make money for criminals, but cost federal, state and local governments billions of dollars.
The bill, which passed 397-11, is especially aimed at Internet sales. ~snip
Cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products could no longer be mailed through the U.S. Postal Service except in limited cases. Private delivery companies already have agreed not to ship tobacco products while the Postal Service continues to deliver products purchased over the Internet.
Misdemeanors under current law would be made felonies, and it would be a federal offense for any seller failing to pay state tax laws. ~snip
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives would gain authority to inspect distributors of cigarettes, and anyone refusing the inspection would be penalized.
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Taxing? The article was about distributing.
Well I'll answer your question about taxing anyway. Econ 101. As the price increases the demand decreases. Any other questions?
So if the gov’ment doesn’t approve of one’s life choices, they should tax you out of existance? Very bizzar
why are Republicans in Congress going along with this?
Shame on you.
My dern seeds aren’t coming up.
I’ve ordered an ecig.
Its ironic that the same people who think they have some sort of right to smoke / grow Tobacco, don’t have a problem with jailing people who do the same with Marijuana.
I haven’t yet, but I think I will (Tobacco was once used as ‘currency’ doncha know ;).
Or make it illegal, & you will get even worse results.
What, exactly, is good about this? Besides being another illegitimate exercise of FedGoon Power, I mean.
What is “cheating” about keeping what is MINE by right of having EARNED it? Which government tax agency do you work for? You surely do NOT belong here!
What about it makes it a good law in your mind? The entire issue of smuggled cigarettes would be moot if they didn’t tax it so much that it becomes profitable for criminal elements.
So, let me get this straight. Taxes are bad and conservatives opposed to taxation are good.
Confiscatory taxes directed at one specific segment of society are up for YOUR approval and anyone attempting to circumvent such targeted confiscatory taxes is bad.............
This is indeed becoming a bizarro world..........
Nice try but you are trying to equate apples to oranges. Tobacco is a legal product, potato chips are a legal product, milk is a legal product, ammunition is a legal product.
Marijuana is illegal.......
I have the right to smoke tobacco because it is a legal product, I do not have a right to smoke marijuana because it is illegal.
You want your perfect socialist world? Make tobacco illegal........but you can't because your government is too damn dependent on the revenues from this product........
A curious concept. Is it constitutional?
Go ahead and stick me there, too, you nanny bootlicker.
Add me there. also. In fact, put me at the TOP of the list. I insist.
So you’re OK with the continued trashing of the Constitution with the war on some drugs, but you draw the line at tobacco? Interesting. And rather thuggish behavior...
I enjoy being called a nanny bootlicker by those who pimp death or are addicts.
Seems to me that you ought to read & absorb your own tagline!
Sometimes I think you actually want a nation full of criminals.
Are you an anarchist, or just a control freak?
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