50 cents a ml tax!?!

[Iffy]

I foresee 'bootlegging'...

I can DIY 10+ml fer fiddy cents!

 

[MamaRymes]

$2 tax not so bad 50 cents a ml is crazy. Its gonna get taxed but should be reasonable and thats not even close to reasonable.

Agreed, and when you sell atomizers and batteries, not ecigs, it seems avoidable, but like the shop owner said in the article , the juice is where they make their money.

 

[yoitstj]

Even more crazy

Smokers who figured they could escape Philadelphia's recently enacted $2-per-pack cigarette tax by switching to e-cigarettes could be in for a letdown.


$2 per pack? Craziness... What yahooos keep voting these idiots into office.

In 2 years Philadelphia will be just like Detroit. Doing things like this will make everybody drive outside the city to make purchases for smokes or e cig supplies.

 

[K_Tech]

Surprisingly blunt admission of why tax. No other justification than, "we need the money".

"When we know our school district is starving for revenue," Brown said Wednesday, "every penny counts. We have to think outside the box and come up with new reoccurring revenue streams."

Funny how when life gets more expensive for most normal-thinking human beings, they usually look at ways to trim their budget.

But when it's the government, they start looking for more ways to take your money away from you...

 

[bussdriver]

They have been trying hard to do that with that trumped up carbon problem.

Oh, and they are getting closer. They are already discussing what to do about the amount of methane you humans and animals generate! I can see a fart tax on the way!

 

[klynnn]

How's that hope and change working out now?

 

[TomGeorge]

How's that hope and change working out now?

We are now hoping for it to change back to the way it was

 

[miroko]

I see nothing unusual here.
It's like this in every country in the world.

I live in Portugal, and e-cigs related material will be taxed next year. We don't know how much, but it will be taxed.

The only thing they will generate with this kind of measures, is our M&B stores will close. And us the consumers, will give our money to Spain, UK, France and Italy ( the EU country's that sell good and cheap juices ) .
There goes their expected incoming increase , straight out side of our country.

 

[HauntedMyst]

If this isn't the push you need to DIY, then I don't see one that will work beyond total banishment of pre-made e-liquid.