Why?

[NinetyNine]

Ooooo! I think I found myself a friend!

A=A

But sometimes A=B, too. I'm just saying.

/not especially a Rand fan.

 

[Pheisty]

"Free market always wins..." HA! Claptrap! That's just brain-washing. Not free against big business cutting out the little guy... lolz. Just look at the number of "mega" corporation buy-outs. "Free market" is often just a banner for those wishing to exploit the market or labor. If it was truly free, we'd have BOTH conservatives and liberals helping it. Where's the anti-monopoly laws when you need them? Oh, and trust me, big tobacco has patents for e-cigs too.......just wait.
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Government has done more to encourage Corporatism with their regulations and paying off those who contribute the most to their campaign coffers...in BOTH parties. I would much rather have the market dictate winners and losers (AKA, less regulation) than a bunch of elitist central planners who've never run a profitable business in their lives. If they had, they certainly wouldn't be working for government.

Why do we trust these power-hungry bureaucrats and not the free market? What is so righteous about government that makes us believe that they can effectively manage an economy? They haven't done a great job of proving me wrong, yet.

 

[PoliticallyIncorrect]

I would just think that smoke shops would stock this stuff. It just makes business sense that customers trying to quit would still shop at their stores.

At least some of them do. I know of a few here in CA. Not much of a selection, mind you, but they sell them.

 

[texastumbleweed]

i agree..i think its only the matter of time that they will be sold as commonly as smokes and snus and dip are......
what i dont get is that there are places you can buy paraphernalia for pot smoking....and pot smoking is ILLEGAL......so why is it that smoke shops dont rack up on ecig stuff? they must be making such profits with the tobacco cigarettes that they are in cahoots with the tobacco companies..................

Do I detect a closet conservative, like myself? (well, I'm not really closeted... actually pretty open about it)

The free market always wins. I think the FDA and big Tobacco/Pharma jumped on this wagon a little late in the game, and it's too late to stop it now. I'm 44, and my prediction is that I will see, in my lifetime, quality e-cig parts and juice being sold at my local gas station.

 

[Pheisty]

I would just think that smoke shops would stock this stuff. It just makes business sense that customers trying to quit would still shop at their stores.

(OMG, I'm going to murder this thread...I can see it already. I apologize in advance...)

I thought the same thing, but then the entrepreneur in me says, "I have to carry an inventory of this stuff if I'm going to sell it and turn a profit, and it's not gonna be cheap. If I have to cease selling it because of gov't regulation, I'm gonna be stuck with this inventory and a loss on my balance sheet."

 

[Pheisty]

But sometimes A=B, too. I'm just saying.

/not especially a Rand fan.

So what you're really saying is "Is does not equal is"? And no, I won't revert to the Clinton diatribe. It's not necessary.

I'm not a fan of everything Rand, but I certainly find her fiction (especially Atlas Shrugged) to be eerily prophetic, and I agree with her on most of the economic side of objectivism. Granted, I don't believe that we can create utopia anywhere on earth, by either socialist communism or free-market capitalism (because of basic human nature), but history has shown that capitalism has definitely outperformed leftist central planning. Not only that, but free market capitalism RESPECTS the freedom of the individual, whereas leftist central planning (socialism, communism...) views the individual as a beast to be tamed and whipped into submission, only to live as a slave to the machine that claims to 'know what's best' for them.