I tend to agree with most.
I'm not grasping this part though :- )
It's a weakness that when they stand on the letter of the law…they are bound to enforce it. Without proper legislation they are compelled to make up "rules" as they are. Bury the lie such is based on and they have buried themselves in their own rules. An example being my earlier proposal which in all likelihood will be the only alternative for most. We can't move to Malaysia.
Significant resistance and implementation costs rise. They've fashioned a self-defeating solution only detracting from existing tobacco revenues.
Legitimate business based on free market principles and association is being buried here. Those willing to forego principle will be assimilated and pay for the privilege. You're right it's not regulation or tax as legitimately might or should be defined by Congress. I agree with you. It's a blank and endless scroll.
They might be shrewd to resort to the minimally intrusive, at first. You catch more bees with honey and assurances. Me personally I doubt they will and it might be best in the end for us if they continue presenting the determined confiscatory face we are seeing. It all the more makes the necessity of an alternative imperative. Hopefully one endorsed more universally among vape business and the community as Dimitri alluded to last night. Game on.
As I've said on this and the what if thread…I'll support no enterprise that submits. Can't blame non BT biz or consortium that seeks it's own accommodation. They will fight in their own self-interest and that's to be expected. But for us that's resorting to a rickety fire escape. We've already been sold out once by tobacco. That's enough. I'll compromise if I have to on my own terms, not theirs.
I'd rather not see one more penny go to the FDA from tobacco or vaping. They're a far greater hazard to us all than either. That's what we may glean by this educational process we've gone through. Class dismissed.
So I'd say save the big money
coalition for a legitimate fight in lower federal courts on tobacco content (no-nic, assumptions of end use) and legislative roll-back of the improper delegations and deferrals of authority in the TCA which created this grotesque departure from representative government. All else are half-measures and capitulations which will continue
ad infinitum because well, that
is the progress of process.
Once enacted taxes are seldom reversed.
Can we realistically expect copacetic beneficial governmental standards for the vaping industry? That we most would just say
awesome, that'll work… based on what we've seen?…NOT at the federal level. Take the car keys away from these petulant delinquents.
That's our job. We're the adults in the room fighting for freedom
from tobacco.
Good luck all.
I also have plenty of mods, including a ProVari, tanks, RBAs, etc. Heck, I even have 5 boxes of Boge cartos and a couple of carto tanks. 
