[gieriscm]

The solution is obvious... the tax in NY should be reduced so there's no incentive to smuggle.

[dirtbiker]

The solution is obvious... the tax in NY should be reduced so there's no incentive to smuggle.

THAT is the obvious solution, but the probable solution would be for the taxes in VA and NC to be RAISED to match those of NY! (and the politicians have the gall to call US greedy...)

[SheLion]

The solution is obvious... the tax in NY should be reduced so there's no incentive to smuggle.

[Alberta's Child]

The solution is obvious... the tax in NY should be reduced so there's no incentive to smuggle.

Even Marxists in Canada figured this out about ten years ago, when cross-border smuggling of cigarettes grew dramatically in the wake of a huge cigarette tax increase -- they ended up scaling back the tax. There was an added problem in that case because much of the "smuggling" was perfectly legal. The Canadian government had no authority to restrict cigarette deliveries that were made through Native reservations (primarily in upstate New York) that straddled both sides of the border.