Congress needs to spend a lot more time worrying about cow farts. that is the most important issue they have had in 50 years.
Again…not about protecting the health and safety of people but about “control”. B http://news.newsmax.com/?Z64RYXduakOf9BLUisqznjgZIXykxfR1Z&ns_mail_uid=1469942&ns_mail_job=1565184_04202014 *Taxing E-Cigarettes Would Encourage Smoking* Budget proposals imposing additional taxes on e-cigarettes would discourage smokers from switching from more harmful regular cigarettes to the vapor devices, Reason Foundation argues. Minnesota is currently the only state with a specific tax policy on e-cigarettes. Lawmakers voted in 2012 to place a 95 percent tax on the wholesale price of the devices, which are battery-powered and use heat to vaporize a liquid solution that usually contains nicotine and flavoring. But more than two dozen states are reportedly weighing plans to tax e-cigarettes as a new source of revenue. New Jersey has announced a plan to tax e-cigarettes at the same rate as tobacco cigarettes: about $2.70 a pack, on top of the 7 percent sales tax already imposed. But some Garden State lawmakers are wary. "It seems like we're going to catch a lot of people with this price point that will either go elsewhere to buy or will not buy it and continue to smoke a cigarette," said Assemblyman John J. Burzichelli in comments reported by njspotlight.com. A recent review of 16 scientific studies in the Journal of Public Health concluded that "a preponderance of the available evidence shows [e-cigarettes] to be much safer than tobacco cigarettes," Reason noted. E-cigarettes are also far less expensive than tobacco cigarettes, which are heavily taxed. The concern is that raising the price of e-cigarettes by imposing a tax would remove the economic incentive for smokers to switch to the vapor devices. New Jersey Assemblyman Joseph Cryan said his state may "jump the gun" in discouraging the use of e-cigarettes through a tax when the product could be helpful in reducing smoking. Washington state legislators attempted to pass a bill taxing e-cigarettes, but it was recently voted down. Reason pointed to an article by Erik Smith at Washington State Wire offering observations "that highlight why the rush to tax e-cigarettes may satisfy the political appetite for ever more tax money to spend, but it is ultimately counterproductive to public health and economically harmful to a rapidly growing market." Wells Fargo projected that annual e-cigarette sales could increase from $1.5 billion to more than $45 billion in 10 years. And former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona has warned the New York City Council that attempts to extend the city's smoking ban to e-cigarettes would "constitute a giant step backward in the effort to defeat tobacco smoking," with the result that many smokers "will simply continue to smoke their current toxic products." __._,_.___ Visit Your Group<https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmOHM5M28xBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzEzOTgwMTU2ODI-> [image: Yahoo! Groups]<https://groups.yahoo.com/neo;_ylc=X3oDMTJlc2lmZmRlBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNnZnAEc3RpbWUDMTM5ODAxNTY4Mg--> • Privacy <https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/groups/details.html> • Unsubscribe <[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe>• Terms of Use <https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/> __,_._,___ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
