Intolerant Dems in Congress urge State AGs to sue e-cig companies, include e-cigs in cigarette settlements, classify e-cigs as cigarettes

[pamdis]

I'd like to know how they can try to collect taxes when 99% of all e-cig/PV mfrs are in China.

This is why you always see the 'xx% of wholesale' term. Do you remember those little stamps on your pack of cigarettes? Retails don't pay/file the tax. They are required to purchase their supplies from a licensed distributor. The distributor pays the tax, places the stamps on, and the cost of the tax is then included in the price right down the line. Retail stores are then fined if they are caught selling the product without the stamps on them.

This is one of my concerns about taxing e-liquids. The stores will have no real say in what products they carry. They will only be able to carry what their distributors decide to carry.

 

[louis]

The liberal politicians are going to "Save you from yourself". If you gave them a large campaign contribution they would sing praises about the e-cig helping smokers for tobacco stop the analogs.
Guys it's all about the MONEY not health.

louis

 

[Roger_Lafayette]

It's not a remedy one asks for, but it is a "remedy" in terms of redressability.<snip>
And you are correct... municipalities are not separate sovereigns, but I don't think anyone said otherwise, unless I missed something.

As I said, my point about repealing was "picky." (Been almost a half-century since Griswold ... but how many states still have archaic condom bans in their statute books? More than a few, I'd bet.)

The separate soveriegnties point was only pertinent to the discussion on "bribing" (although I like your word "incentivizing" better). The feds had to "incentivize" state and local authorities in order to get state statutes passed which raised the drinking age to 21 - otherwise there was no way that state and local resources could be used to enforce the rule.

However a state doesn't have to do anything to "incentize" a local jurisd. to enforce state law.

You & Technohydra might consider having a look at the thread on UT SB 112, it has some interesting issues.

 

[Technohydra]

Interestingly enough, where I live and work ( with some bright people, admittedly), people seems to be very aware of the money versus best interest issues and desire to change that situation via future elections. I can only hope such is slowly becoming true elsewhere. I'd like to know that my faith in the common man isn't that far misplaced, although I certainly accept it may be so.

 

[skoony]

skoony, click on the smiley face at the top of the quick reply box for a group of clickable emoticons.

thanks.
its not in the box in advanced mode.
regards
mike