right to choose
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
United States
July 14, 2012 7:59pm CST
No I'm not talking about what you may think, clearly this is under the smoking catagory. My hubby at my suggestion went to a shop that has many locations in our area where you buy the tobacco from them (in a ratio/formula for your fav brand), buy cig tubes, and then YOU RENT & opperate the machine that fills the tubes. Well I guess some big convience store and gas station chains here are having a fit. So a law that's a mere paragraph long was piggy backed onto a Federal Highway bill that basically stopped this business from letting people to rent the rent the machines. Yep cutting into all the big company profits because people addicted to smokes were making their own with the rental of this machine and paying 50% less than paying per pack and per carton. Isn't nice that people who have smoked for half their life or longer are not allowed to choose where they purchase their smokes from, brand or no brand smokes, and the price they pay. Sorry but that's just BS! Hubby has owned his own machine they are over $100 and he said they don't load the tubes like that rental machine does and I think he owned it for under 6mo's before it broke.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
15 Jul 12
That is just down right sneaky to get a law through that way. It is impossible to do anything to save money any more.
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@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
15 Jul 12
There's so much sneaky business going on with budgets and various bills it's not even funny. Especially pork is hidden in those long laws. The city wanted to annex townies to the city, they snuk it into the state budget, now where does the city or town we belong to have to do with the state's budget?
Yeah harder and harder to save a buck, even worse the people that don't have to worry about when their next pay check is coming in are making all these laws. It doesn't hurt them it hurts everyone else!
@jillhill (37353)
• United States
15 Jul 12
They tack so much stuff on to bills it would make our heads spin! I think they don't even know how to be honest anymore....and they are so hepped up on everyone quitting then they love taking the tax money.....whenever they are short they just add another tax. A double standard if you ask me!
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@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
19 Jul 12
Yes it is very much a double standard!! And sadly these bills are all written in legal jargin that most of us would not be able to understand them let alone who could take the time to read a several hundred to several thousand page documents. Do politicians even have the time to read them all? And why are companies and lobbiests allowed to influence what is right for the American people? As long as their pocket book says it's right but what about their morals and ethics in doing what's right for the people they were elected to represent.
Just too much pork and lobbying leaves us pawns further at the bottome of the totem pole.
@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
19 Jul 12
a rental machine?
huh.that's the first i'd heard of that.we just got a new one we bought,the old was wearing out.
they pretty much allow whatever up here,only difference is they'll tax the poop out of you for the privilege.the store here selling the tubes swears a box is going up to 15 bucks,which is total BS.i had thought it was against the law to tax higher than the worth of the product,but i guess they look the other way when it pertains to smokers.
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@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
15 Jul 12
Another example of big business telling gov't what to do and ignoring the people. I can't believe that what they've done could be legal but it probably is, running people out of business so that their cronies can make more money. This is disgusting. Where did America, the land of the free, disappear to?!
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@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
15 Jul 12
Exactly you hit it on the head as always Dragon! Hubby said within the chain of shops they've had to let go 60% off their staff. People are still struggling to get any sustainable employment and not they just added a few more to the unemployment line! I don't think the shops should pay for their unemployment the corporations that got this law put on the books should pay for it or hire these people!
