Look, I m not in favor of smoking. What I am not in favor is burying behavior control in bills that have nothing to do with the issue at hand. This was supposed to be a transportation bill minus Keystone pipeline apparently. But hey, let’s hit the little guy who gets his pleasure and saves a buck. By the way, the cigarette makers were pounding the pavement for this bill. What else that will be found in this bill will come later no doubt when someone decides to read it. These GOPers are amazing aren’t they? I am surprised that they just do not levy a tax on these poor souls, now that Roberts has given this control to whomever. Here we go.
A tiny amendment buried in the federal transportation bill to be signed today by President Barack Obama will put operators of roll-your-own cigarette operations in Las Vegas and nationwide out of business at midnight.
“It saves me time and money, and in the end I feel better because I don’t get all of the chemicals that the other cigarettes have,” Bawden said. “With the brand-name cigarettes, we pay for the chemicals and the name, and I don’t want any of that, so I don’t even know what I’ll do when the shop closes down.”
Robert Weissen, with his brothers and other partners, own nine Sin City Cigarette Factory locations in Southern Nevada, including six in Las Vegas, and one in Hawaii. He said when the bill is signed their only choice is to turn off their 20 RYO Filling Station machines and lay off more than 40 employees. Dont you love Obama and his job creation?
“We’ll stay open for about another week to sell tubes and tobacco just to get through our inventory, but without the use of the RYO machines, we won’t be staying open,” he said. Full story at LVRJ
July 8, 2012 at 1:44 pm
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July 8, 2012 at 10:25 am
This is our government now. They tax you running, and they tax you standing still.
This will only get worse. The voracious beast is out of money and needs more…
July 8, 2012 at 2:16 pm
The government and those who legislate are out of their minds and apparently only a few of us are aware,nice.
July 8, 2012 at 4:33 am
Sheesh.
Where is the regulation to prevent the selling of “cigarette papers” in the convenient marts? I imagine that you know that those “cigarette papers” are used for something other than tobacco.
July 8, 2012 at 2:15 pm
Oh, it wont be long till we get there, as well as anything and everything else/
July 8, 2012 at 12:41 am
Baucus must be a bong man.
July 8, 2012 at 2:14 pm
What happned to the pipeline== remember no bill unless we had the pipe…
July 7, 2012 at 12:51 pm
What drives me crazy about this is the fact that it was totally unrelated to the bill at hand and yet it was attached anyway. This is the type of legislation which should be debated on its own so people can weigh in on it, and yet we don’t find out until after it is too late.
July 8, 2012 at 9:23 pm
Bills use to go through the committee process, now who knows who writes these things
July 7, 2012 at 11:56 am
Just another way for progressives to assert power and control over our lives. So much for progressives being for freedom of choice.
July 8, 2012 at 2:13 pm
Yet most are blinded by his charm
July 7, 2012 at 11:17 am
It’s time to give him his pink slip.
July 8, 2012 at 2:13 pm
Well done.
July 7, 2012 at 10:05 am
Steve Dennis posted on this as well. I didn’t even know there was such a thing as roll-your-own businesses in America today. Things have sure changed since I moved away. Any way. this was my comment at Steve’s place:
Our Congressmen and Senators don’t want to change the process. They like it just the way it is because they all want to sneak their pet projects throigh this way. They could have an up and down vote on every bill and every amendment; but they woun’t do it.We get a lot of garbage laws passed this way.
July 7, 2012 at 10:06 am
Ammo next.
July 7, 2012 at 12:49 pm
Scary thought, but I will not be surprised.
July 7, 2012 at 9:52 am
Gee, Big Tobacco still has some clout, it seems. How dare you try to get away from their additives. Next step will be inspecting tobacco growers to make sure you’re not saving any for yourself.
July 7, 2012 at 10:04 am
Right you are R.step by step. Nothing tells the story of our coming downfall then this me thinks.
July 7, 2012 at 10:06 am
P.S. Next will come supplies for loading one’s own shells.