Trump’s 2021Budget: Tobacco and FDA
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I can’t get excited about this. Government oversight is government oversight; it will be onerous no matter what alphabet soup agency is in charge. Even if this happened (and I’d guess the odds are much against it) I suspect it will turn out to be worse for the industry; at least the FDA has other fish to fry. A newly minted bureaucracy with a mandate entirely focused on tobacco will almost certainly be more intrusive as it moves to justify its existence and expand the scope of its activities.
Great idea which is why it has little chance of happening. No guarantee that would be any better or worse. Would like to think were a common sense approach be taken, it would be better. But common sense and government is an oxymoron.
When was the last time an American congress passed a full budget? Does this have any chance at all with a democratic house? Or is this just theatre?
It’s a position, and political theatre.
I nominate JimInks to be the director of said agency.
There’s no one with more experience.
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players ...
Be that as it is: Yes, in my personal experience at a multi national, proposed budgets are merely starting points for negotiations.
More mouths to feed if this goes through.
Yes, that’s why it may get bi-partisan support! ?
Getting tobacco away from the FDA: great idea...because it's total BS that it was ever put under that agency to begin with.
Creating an entirely new federal agency for any purpose whatsoever: horrible idea.
Adding another tentacle to the giant vampire squid for any reason is so inadvisable.
Creating an entirely new federal agency for any purpose whatsoever: horrible idea.
Adding another tentacle to the giant vampire squid for any reason is so inadvisable.
Oh I forgot...we really should offer solutions instead of just pointing out problems. So here's what the federal government should be doing about tobacco IMO:
Absolutely nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
As a compromise to bring both parties together, I propose that the new Tobacco Agency be comprised entirely of ten middle aged women who sit in a circle and ”think of the children.”
So you're proposing a witches coven as a new federal agency?
It would be nothing new, but I guess it's about time they conduct their rituals openly instead of in dungeons, so sure...why not?
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