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When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging;
when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive,
it's called hospitality.
- Al Capone
when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive,
it's called hospitality.
- Al Capone
"Bootleggers
and Baptists."
Anyone
who understands how economics works can understand why bootleggers were in
favor of the law. The government regulation made their product scarce, driving
up prices and increasing profits. So even though they were breaking the law,
they were making a huge profit in the process.
These
kinds of odd relationships can come about only as a result of government
tinkering in your life.
The
state legislature in MD wants to raise taxes on cigarettes and tobacco companies.
If the state regulators get their way, they'll increase the tax on cigarettes
by 50%, making it the fourth-highest cigarette tax in the country. They also
want to increase taxes on products like cigars, rolling papers, and smokeless
tobacco.
Health
advocates and state regulators should be delighted to hear the news. They want
to make sure you're protected from these evil cancer sticks. At the same time,
black market cigarette smugglers are probably very excited as well.
You
see, Maryland's southern neighbor, Virginia, has some of the lowest cigarette
taxes in the country. And many opportunistic black-market operators take
advantage of their low prices, bringing the product to other regulated states.
In fact, many cigarette smugglers caught in Maryland are usually on their way
up north to New York, the state with the highest cigarette tax in the country.
So
you can see why these black-market smugglers should be so excited. Thanks to
the new Maryland laws, their transportation costs would drop dramatically. Now
all they'd have to do to find a profitable market is cross the Potomac River.
It's
the unintended consequence of government regulation that you find out about
only in the months/years after a law is passed. Politicians are good at coming
up with new ways to tax you, but they rarely take the time to think beyond that
first step.
Politicians
and bureaucrats are notorious for manufacturing euphemisms -- clever but
deceptive substitutes for what they really mean but don't want to admit. That's
how the phrase "revenue enhancement" entered the vocabulary. Some of
our courageous friends in government couldn't bring themselves to say "tax
hike."
Source: Guns n Glory
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