It's even more insane when applied to
vaping and eJuice because the barriers to entry/avoidance are so low. In a few days Chicagoans will be paying a dollar or more per ml for retail
juice. Has anyone else done the math on this? A $50 liter of 100mg Nic will make 33 liters of 3mg
juice. In the meantime 33 liters of PG/VG can be had for not much more than $100.
That $150 of readily available and mostly basic consumer product will be attempted to be taxed for $34,000. Those of us with 3 liters of nic in the freezer are sitting on $100,000 of "potential tax".
In the meantime, anyone can mix those two products together to make $100,000 of untaxed product. We don't need land to grow tobacco, or vast open spaces to hide the obvious smells of a home distillery, don't need large copper stills. Just a couple of jars and maybe a few common syringes.
Back in prohibition most liquor was actually imported. That won't really be necessary here unless the gov't wants to put millions of people in jail to prevent the sale and distribution of nic.
Total insanity, at so many levels. I think it is ironic and maybe appropriate that this new tax is in Al Capone's old back yard. I'm waiting for street corner nic dealers to be shooting each other to gain control of their neighborhood markets. Insanity.
