Update on the PACT Act – October 4th 2010

The US Congress may be leaving Washington for more important things…like getting re-elected; the Government bureaucracy is proudly doing its best to ruin the country by continuing the War on Tobacco.

While the USPS runs $3BB in the red, Congress has refused to increase the price of stamps, and as more of our mail mysteriously never makes it to the final destination, FDA’s Tobacco Control Act (TCA) and BATF’s Prevent all Cigarette Trafficking Act (PACT) continue to fight to keep all tobacco (including Swedish Snus but not Cigars) from being shipped via USPS.  Did anyone at the Congressional Budget Office run the numbers to see how massive the amount of revenue this ban is costing the US postal service?  It seems that cigarette and smokeless tobacco smuggling terrorists only use the USPS:  they have never heard of UPS, FedEx, DHL, or even U-Haul.   READ COMPLETE ARTICLE….