New legislation would require cigarette buyers to verify their age twice - once with an ID that Web site operators would confirm through government databases and again when cigarettes are delivered.
Is it too much to expect the New York Post to look critically upon Schumer's claims? Generally speaking, you need a credit card to buy things online, and most teenagers don't have credit cards. In addition, the cigarettes would be shipped to the teenager's house, and they'd have to hope that mom or dad didn't pick up the mail that day. Finally, it seems that the real agenda here is creating government databases to track cigarette smokers who are avoiding exorbitant taxes by buying online. Yet the Post uncritically swallows Schumer's nonsense. Unbelievable.
You KNOW this is more smoke blowing up people's butts. Excuse my terminology. And like I have said: they can't just target cigarette vendors on the net. They will have to go after EVERYONE that sells ANYTHING! How about online auctions? Let them start there first!
This is all BS because they are pissed off because they aren't realizing the Big WindFall of Money they thought that raising the taxes would bring them. Americans aren't sheep and Americans aren't stupid. They can all pound sound.
Someone ought to point out to Chuckie that kids are no longer allowed to play "stickball"...how is it that parents can police that and not kids' internet use?
Give those kids CONDOMS! Keep 'em off cigarettes! /sarcasm, of course.