“I’d like to see the tobacco companies call the government’s
bluff...Do you think Congress would pass a law ordering them to continue selling the products?”
Nah. They would then just go into overdrive trying to find new ways to tax more things, create a V.A.T., increase the corporate tax rate, increase the capital gains tax, tax the private retirement fund accounts, slap a tax on each bottle of bottled water, etc. They haven’t reached the bottom of their list of ways to increase revenues yet..far from it.
Exactly. That is why the FDA and anti-smoking groups are so against electronic cigarettes/nicotine vaporizers.
Billions of dollars at stake and gubmint makes 10 times more money on each pack as tobacco companies.
If it is so horrible just ban the sale of cigarettes. Watch who comes out and opposes that.