Replies to post #138315 on DD Support Board and Research Team

[N4longterm]

What will the politicians do if everyone quits? Where will that revenue come from?

Kind of like the gasoline tax.

Here in Indiana, they had to start imposing a 'Wheel Tax' on the annual plate renewal to make up for higher efficiency vehicles. Now they, and other states, are trying to decide what to do with electric vehicles.

They always come up with something.

[shajandr]

"And now I've had enough. I've mostly switched to vaping. ... What will the politicians do if everyone quits?"

I'm shure you're aware there are numerous state bills pending to tax the crap ~OUTT of vaping.

[integral]

As long as we keep electing Doctors and Lawyers, we will have budget issues. The last thing we need is a former fighter pilot who crashed and burned during combat and an opthamologist. We certainly don't need a Weiner or a Cortez. Maybe we need a few more bean counters who know how to not waste $$$, and nobody needs uneducated soccer moms in congress.

I understand "We the People", this is not working. The idiots have taken over the asylum.

[Koog]

I tried vaping. Started when I knew I would have a layover in Heathrow and they allowed vaping in the terminal.

Eventually went back to Ciggies. I think they will prove the crap in the “juice” is worse for you than tobacco.

Buy bulk tobacco & tubes, then roll my own in an electric machine. 200 tubes cost less than $3. A pound of tobacco costs less than $13 and yields over 400 Ciggies.

Have to stock up when in Virginia as Arizona outlawed even bulk tobacco purchases by mail.

[e-ore]

From legalized marijuana, even with its problems (that they are aware of)

What will the politicians do if everyone quits? Where will that revenue come from?

“Section 1 – Impaired Driving and Fatalities:
Marijuana-related traffic deaths when a driver was positive for marijuana more than doubled from 55 deaths in 2013 to 125 deaths in 2016.

Marijuana-related traffic deaths increased 66 percent in the four-year average (2013-2016) since Colorado legalized recreational marijuana compared to the four-year average (2009-2012) prior to legalization.
During the same time period, all traffic deaths increased 16 percent.

In 2009, Colorado marijuana-related traffic deaths involving drivers testing positive for marijuana represented 9 percent of all traffic deaths. By 2016, that number has more than doubled to 21 percent

The yearly number of marijuana-related hospitalizations increased 72 percent after the legalization of recreational marijuana (2009-2012 vs. 2013-2015)."

http://www.rmhidta.org/html/FINAL%202017%20Legalization%20of%20Marijuana%20in%20Colorado%20The%20Impact.pdf

Marijuana is legal there but...

"Colorado denies widow half of late husband’s workers’ compensation due to his marijuana use"
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/07/17/marijuana-workers-compensation/