Interesting insight into Oz tobacco

[VDL_Piper]

Crooks, black market and impotent policing, what could possibly go wrong.

Tobacconists caught selling black market cigarettes are making so much money, fines are considered 'a cost of doing business'

Australia's tobacco excise is "well past its point of effectiveness", according to one expert, who says it's pushing smokers onto the black market, hurting retailers and taxpayers.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Unjust laws aren't laws at all.

 

[OzPiper]

History showed us that Prohibition didn’t work. Just played into the hands of mobsters

This Neo-prohibition is doomed to the same fate.
Governments just don’t learn from history

 

[Non-Mentholated Black Man]

The fact that people think the government is the solution, rather than the cause of the problem(s), guarantees that things will only get worse.


"We really need some regulation around it. We need to have licences."
~ Russell Fitzpatrick, a typical politician, who believes that government is the Great God.

"It's hugely frustrating and I've spoken to politicians both Liberal and Labor about it."
~ David Allen, a hotel owner, who wants the government to ensure his profits.

"If I wasn't doing the right thing, I'd be a millionaire by now."
~ Mat Evans, the only NSW cigarette wholesaler, who wants the government to make him rich.

 

[Servant King]

Governments just don’t learn from history

They do. It's just obscured by their sadism.

government is the Great God.

In effect, it is. That's what "In God We Trust" on US currency means. Different god than the One everyone thinks this refers to! It's what a long departed teacher of mine repeatedly referred to as "the perfect swindle."

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Governments just don’t learn from history

Megalomaniacs.

 

[alaskanpiper]

They’ve got Footy though. Frank love Footy.

 

[Sigmund]

And the brilliant lawmakers didnt see that comming.