How to Get Around Future E Cig Taxes
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Big Agriculture, Big Pharma, Big tobacco can't tax you, can't regulate you, can't jail you. Big government can do all three. I fear Big Government far more than corporations. Corporations have power because we elect corrupt politicians; the power is not an inherent property of a corporation. It is given them by the criminals that we have elected. To paraphrase the Beloved Leader, elections have consequences.
if the government gets ahold of the internet, you will be buying your stuff from the government
When was the last time we had the chance to vote for someone who wasn't a corrupt criminal, for national or even state office in a general election?
The time had to have been before we started on a path that led to governmental intrusion into every area of life. Now, consider this, a political contribution is no different than paying protection money to the mob. I pay [ooops, I mean contribute to] a politician; I get favorable regulation and government leaves me alone.
I used to buy cigarettes from an Indian reservation but sometime in the last six years Big Government shut that down.
Until the government has every dollar from the general public and control over every aspect of your life, they will not stop. Want influence? Become a congressman or senator, then you can just ignore the law anyways.
The big corps don't settle for just being left alone any more. These days they "lobby" for regulations that make it darn near impossible for upstarts to compete with them. My sense is the entire system is like an airplane that's in an unrecoverable flat spin; it's pointless to keep wrestling with the controls.
No thanks. I'm not religious, but if there is something like a St. Peter at the pearly gates, I don't wanna have THAT much explaining to do.
Sadly, I agree; I fear that the majority of the voting people has become so enthralled with bread and circuses that the spiral is unrecoverable. We look at Big Whatever with intense fear and hatred but continue to vote for the same extortionists each election cycle. Ahh well, it is good to be seventy, I will probably will see the ultimate end of the republic but won't have live in it for too long.
Time for the Tractor Supply to step up and offer "USP grade 99.9% pure nicotine insecticide" (wink wink). Guaranteed to kill even the biggest ANTZ. They already carry the PG gallons, so adding that and a USP VG Mane and Coat. [emoji14]
I'm pretty sure this is not true. If it is, please tell us how!
I was forced into rolling my own cigarettes when I could no longer buy cigs that were not "fire safe" (I am violently allergic to something they put in there). After a giant tax hike on cigs, many others moved to RYO so the gov't saw a huge loss in tax revenue. They fixed that by hiking the tax on RYO cig tobacco by 2800% (yes, you read that right). Shortly after, they also banned online sales of cig tobacco, under the guise of "protecting the children" (supposedly kids were buying RYO tobacco on the internet because it was easier than buying cigs in stores).
Any gov't that can do all of the above can certainly make vaping supplies difficult to get and/or MUCH more expensive. The nicotine is probably what they will go after.
I still roll the Wife's cigarettes and use menthol "pipe cut" tobacco, which is just cigarette tobacco in a longer cut. Still fills the tube filters the same, but substantially less expensive than cigarette cut tobacco. About $15 for a pound of "Good Stuff" pipe cut tobacco here in Ohio but a pound of the same brand cigarette cut tobacco is like $50.
If they were really trying to make an impact on youth smoking why wouldn't they also tax the pipe tobacco the same as cigarettes? Most kids I see smoking these days are buying mini cigars that are filled with true pipe style tobacco. Hmm.
If they were really trying to make an impact on youth smoking why wouldn't they also tax the pipe tobacco the same as cigarettes? Most kids I see smoking these days are buying mini cigars that are filled with true pipe style tobacco. Hmm.
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I wouldn't get my hopes up that a 1000+ store corporate chain with $5+ billion in sales would buck the system like that.
Indeed. Got a freezer?
Within a few weeks of successfully switching my 2PAD habit to vaping, I decided I was done paying taxes for my "sin" of consuming nicotine and have been accumulating 100mg base ever since. Other consumables like batteries, wick, resistance wire, PG, VG, and flavorings all have a plethora of other uses and will be much more difficult to regulate or tax.
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