Editing the Wiki – Tobacco Control Edition
Here’s a very nice example of an advocate using the wiki function to make his or her case about a bill.
H.R. 1676, the PACT Act, would prevent tobacco smuggling and ensure the collection of all tobacco taxes, according to its authors.
But a WashingtonWatch.com user points out in the wiki article for the bill, “Honest, law-abiding online tobacco companies would suffer financially, and many people would” – well, you can read it for yourself. Go to the page for the bill and click “view article” or “read more.”
Log in yourself (with an account you create here), and you can edit the article further to refine the points there, or offer fair counter-arguments.
azjimbob
This Bill does nothing to stop sales to minors.What idiot thinks thaat our 14 year olds are using their Credit Cards to order cigs,out of state,to be shipped by mail to their home? We certainly need to clean out the idiots that support this sort of elimination of our freedoms. We are now going to be forced to trade within what ever state we live.This elinates all market competition. It also assures that there is NO OVERSIGHT on individual states tax rates. By this law you will be required to pay what ever that state can get.$2-3/pack.This is same as TEA TAX.
This will be Obama’s and the Democrat’s 2nd TAX increase in 7 months.This bill does very little to stop the foreign import,but everything about buuying somewhere else in the country. America is losing freedom inch by inch,state by state,day by day and some applaud this notion.Soon you will be sorry,but it will be to late.
Obama
this bill would put legitimate mail order companies out of business in Western NY and their employees joining the ever increasing ranks of the unemployed. Mail Order companies are accountable, they use age verification software as well as adult signature for delivery. This bill would create a HUGE BLACK MARKET because of the high taxes and unyielding demand.
FU
This is BS!!! America ? Ok America ? Wait China, no wait… what is America now? They can now tell us what we can and can not buy online.
This is smokes plain and simple. It is legal to grow tobacco for personal use.. So let us all smokers do this now! Tax free!
I’m sick and fucking tired of the government telling me what I can and can not do! lets stand up together!