PURCHASING THINGIDINGKY

One of the major effects of tariffs and punitive taxes, other than bankrupting businesses, is that smuggling goes through the roof. Which, surely, is free-enterprise at it's finest! "You want thingidingky, stupid white man? Very good, I supply you with thingidingky! For one quarter the price that your licensed thingidingky vendor charges!" Several people I know haven't purchased legal cigarettes in California in many years. They don't have to. They have several contacts who will sell them cigarettes smuggled in from elsewhere. For considerably less than they would pay from a legitimate cigarette store.

We spent years fighting the war on drugs. Drugs won.
Which wasn't a big surprise to anyone.

A century ago we banned alcohol. Over the next decade prohibition gave us the FBI, the Kennedys, and organized crime. We're still on the fence about two of those three.

And everybody loves stockcar racing, right?


It's against the law to hire illegal aliens, or anybody without correct papers. There are now many enterprises which, because of ICE, have severe labour shortages.
Many of them are Trump voting family farmers.
Funny how that turned out.

Far be it from me to speak any ill of certain activities.

As a red-blooded American, I must instinctively applaud all manifestations of laissez faire free-wheeling capitalist free-enterprise. It's what made this country great. The colonists during the revolutionary war did it, starting a tradition which maintains to this day. John Jacob Astor of the American Fur Company smuggled opium on a truly massive scale, the coastal English during the Napoleonic war smuggled as well, United States Citizens near the Canadian border do it as naturally as breathing, Russian citizens during the Soviet Period did it all the time, and the Dutch province from when my ancestors hailed regard it as part of their intangible cultural heritage, we're planning to file papers with Unesco about that.

Something about butter, guns, and tobacco.


Thumbing one's nose at the Feds, sneering at Washington, and buying stuff illegally, are all as American as apple-pie. We Americans are very fond of apple-pie. It runs in our veins.


Yay, thingidingky!



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