The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives would gain authority to inspect distributors of cigarettes, and anyone refusing the inspection would be penalized. Warentless searches are repugnant. Otherwise this is a good law and I hope it passes.
1 posted on
05/21/2009 2:09:36 PM PDT by
Drango
To: Drango
Overtax something and you create a black market.
2 posted on
05/21/2009 2:14:50 PM PDT by
Brookhaven
(The Era of Reagan is NOW)
To: Drango
buy your bacco seeds before it’s too late; and grow your own (then sell the rest to neighbors’ friends, acquantances ;)!
3 posted on
05/21/2009 2:17:04 PM PDT by
JSDude1
(DHS, FBI, FEMA, etc have been bad little boys. They need to be spanked and sent to timeout!)
To: bamahead
4 posted on
05/21/2009 2:17:53 PM PDT by
JSDude1
(DHS, FBI, FEMA, etc have been bad little boys. They need to be spanked and sent to timeout!)
To: Drango
Sounds like the government moving in simply to protect their tax revenue. Screw them.
To: JSDude1; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; ...
9 posted on
05/21/2009 2:47:28 PM PDT by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: Drango
What exactly is good about this? Maybe if the government wasn't in the business of trying to enforce a dubious morality upon a minority group of individuals who can be looked down on by a large part of the brainwashed sheeple, there wouldn't be a problem with a black market in tobacco in the first place. It's not the smokers who are trying to save some money that are the problem, it is a rapacious government that is the problem.
And just for the record, the only smoking I partake in is an occasional cigar once or twice a year.
14 posted on
05/21/2009 3:05:13 PM PDT by
Left2Right
("Starve the Beast!")
To: Drango
why are Republicans in Congress going along with this?
Shame on you.
To: Drango
What, exactly, is good about this? Besides being another illegitimate exercise of FedGoon Power, I mean.
28 posted on
05/21/2009 4:58:17 PM PDT by
dcwusmc
(We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
To: Drango
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.
30 posted on
05/21/2009 5:00:34 PM PDT by
zeugma
(Will it be nukes or aliens? Time will tell.)
To: Drango; Congressman Billybob
it would be a federal offense for any seller failing to pay state tax laws. A curious concept. Is it constitutional?
33 posted on
05/21/2009 5:45:43 PM PDT by
sionnsar
((Iran Azadi | 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | "Also sprach Telethustra" - NonValueAdded)
To: Drango
Otherwise this is a good law and I hope it passes.Sometimes I think you actually want a nation full of criminals.
Are you an anarchist, or just a control freak?
40 posted on
05/21/2009 8:04:00 PM PDT by
elkfersupper
(Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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