H.R. 1676, The PACT Act
Points Against
Honest, law-abiding online tobacco companies would suffer financially, and many people would be out of work. This would hurt the Native Americans and Swedish Snus companies who make a living selling tobacco products.
The PACT Act can cause a black market to form and there would be little to no quality-control on these products, meaning in addition to the taxes lost to the government, there will be more people in need of treatment for cancer and other tobacco related diseases. People will also start growing their own tobacco and making smokes or smokeless tobacco at home, undetected and depriving the government of taxes.
The PACT Act allows the online sale and mailing of cigars. Anyone, including possibly someone under-aged, would be able to buy the cigars without paying any taxes, then shred and flavor them, start chewing them instead of the dip or chewing tobacco, or worse, even sell them on the black market disguised as a different product.
Cigarettes, chew tobacco, snus, and dip could even be put in plastic and wrapped in cigar wrap leaves, then sent in the mail labeled as cigars. That will not help the sales or tax problem either.
A better approach would be to mandate tax-payment by the recipient of the tobacco order at the post office or house where the tobacco is delivered. This way, the Government would still get its taxes and the organizations that these taxes fund will not lose any money.
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Points Against
Honest, law-abiding online tobacco companies would suffer financially, and many people would be out of work. This would hurt the Native Americans and Swedish Snus companies who make a living selling tobacco products.
The PACT Act can cause a black market to form and there would be little to no quality-control on these products, meaning in addition to the taxes lost to the government, there will be more people in need of treatment for cancer and other tobacco related diseases. People will also start growing their own tobacco and making smokes or smokeless tobacco at home, undetected and depriving the government of taxes.
The PACT Act allows the online sale and mailing of cigars. Anyone, including possibly someone under-aged, would be able to buy the cigars without paying any taxes, then shred and flavor them, start chewing them instead of the dip or chewing tobacco, or worse, even sell them on the black market disguised as a different product.
Cigarettes, chew tobacco, snus, and dip could even be put in plastic and wrapped in cigar wrap leaves, then sent in the mail labeled as cigars. That will not help the sales or tax problem either.
A better approach would be to mandate tax-payment by the recipient of the tobacco order at the post office or house where the tobacco is delivered. This way, the Government would still get its taxes and the organizations that these taxes fund will not lose any money.
(Log in to edit the wiki and be the first to show why the bill should not pass!)
....really? these are the people we put in office?
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