>Alberta woke up and realized ‘we’re losing a lot of money.
This article is written as though government has a god given right to tax revenue. The solution to organized crime is remove the taxes. If I were a smoker I'd buy illegal cigarettes, screw the government, it's the citizens money not the government. This is a crime created by the government..
I agree with most of this article but have a problem with the out right health dichotomy being presented here. So even if the government received all of the taxes from their CIGARETTE tobacco sales with no black market or native interference, the bottom line is that they could care less about Canadians health problems directly related to this industry but are more worried about the massive 200% tobacco tax they are collecting from those sales as the article makes quite clear. In the same breath they also demonize flavored vapes and nicotine pouches which have zero deaths in Canada as compared to over 45,000 plus annually from Cigarette tobacco due to there being far less TAX being collected from these products despite there being a much safer product/alternative to smoke which Adults under the charter, have that right to choose.
The 32 billion dollar lawsuit against big tobacco out of the province of N.B. already illustrated that they have asked the big 3 tobacco giants to pitch in and help with the health problems directly related to their industry, is causing. This seems more like paying for shelf space than it does anything else and stinks of political patronage between big tobacco and government. We don't see Health Canada doing anything about this problem but many other equally as serious health concerns, especially in the food and chemical industries, are also being ignored. Time to catch a moral compass and live and let live, Steve. As Mark Twain put it; the only thing I want from my government is less of it.
The only reason for this is they can't stand missing tax dollars. I say good on those who can get their smokes tax free. If they want to smoke. Even though I hate smokers, but it's an addiction that they need to overcome. And taxing the hell out them only increases their need for it.
If THE ORGANIZED CRIME from Ottawa, ceased their SHAKEDOWN of people who chose to smoke perhaps they would not face THE COMPETITION from the other ORGANIZED CRIME. I guess we need to decide who we want to pick our pockets and who gets to do the SHAKEDOWN. It seems Ottawa doesn't like ANY COMPETITION!!!!
>Alberta woke up and realized ‘we’re losing a lot of money.
This article is written as though government has a god given right to tax revenue. The solution to organized crime is remove the taxes. If I were a smoker I'd buy illegal cigarettes, screw the government, it's the citizens money not the government. This is a crime created by the government..
I agree with most of this article but have a problem with the out right health dichotomy being presented here. So even if the government received all of the taxes from their CIGARETTE tobacco sales with no black market or native interference, the bottom line is that they could care less about Canadians health problems directly related to this industry but are more worried about the massive 200% tobacco tax they are collecting from those sales as the article makes quite clear. In the same breath they also demonize flavored vapes and nicotine pouches which have zero deaths in Canada as compared to over 45,000 plus annually from Cigarette tobacco due to there being far less TAX being collected from these products despite there being a much safer product/alternative to smoke which Adults under the charter, have that right to choose.
The 32 billion dollar lawsuit against big tobacco out of the province of N.B. already illustrated that they have asked the big 3 tobacco giants to pitch in and help with the health problems directly related to their industry, is causing. This seems more like paying for shelf space than it does anything else and stinks of political patronage between big tobacco and government. We don't see Health Canada doing anything about this problem but many other equally as serious health concerns, especially in the food and chemical industries, are also being ignored. Time to catch a moral compass and live and let live, Steve. As Mark Twain put it; the only thing I want from my government is less of it.
Sounds like the only ones crying are the big tobacco companies and the government!
The only reason for this is they can't stand missing tax dollars. I say good on those who can get their smokes tax free. If they want to smoke. Even though I hate smokers, but it's an addiction that they need to overcome. And taxing the hell out them only increases their need for it.
1.5 billion in lost revenue is a fully built, functioning large hospital lost every year.
It's many hospitals with the destruction of the oil and gas industry. And the destruction of the auto industry.
If THE ORGANIZED CRIME from Ottawa, ceased their SHAKEDOWN of people who chose to smoke perhaps they would not face THE COMPETITION from the other ORGANIZED CRIME. I guess we need to decide who we want to pick our pockets and who gets to do the SHAKEDOWN. It seems Ottawa doesn't like ANY COMPETITION!!!!