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Hands Off the Fruity E-Cigs: https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/hands-off-the-fruity-e-cigs/

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The Trump administration’s Food and Drug Administration is gearing up to ban e-cigarette flavorings besides the ones that taste like tobacco. It’s unclear if this would have any benefits for public health. What is clear is that it will be a disaster for personal freedom, and that this is not a decision that Congress ever should have left in the executive branch’s hands.

Smoking cigarettes is one of those things that we allow adults to do even though it’s obviously bad for them, causing numerous cancers and other health problems. There are extra taxes involved, but smokes are openly for sale pretty much wherever you go. It’s a free country.

But in 2009 Congress, in its infinite wisdom, gave the FDA the authority to regulate tobacco products — except for all the products that were already on the market. This meant that the agency would have authority over upstart products competing with cigarettes, but the rules would not apply to cigarettes themselves.

Upstart products such as e-cigarettes, which deliver nicotine without all the tar and other nasty chemicals that cigarettes contain, and are estimated to be 95 percent safer as a result. (Nicotine by itself is not that harmful; it even provides some health benefits.) E-cigs, the FDA can yank off the market on a whim. Marlboro Reds, those will be fine.

The public-health impact of banning e-cig flavors is therefore rather unclear, as the alternative to e-cigs will be unaffected. On the one hand, fruity flavorings do appeal to minors, and minors are increasingly vaping despite the legal minimum age being 18. If they get hooked young, they may be addicted to nicotine for years, and some might even switch to cigarettes. But on the other hand, even for minors it’s far better to vape than to puff Camels, and it’s not as if no adult enjoys, say, strawberry flavoring. Better taste is one reason to vape instead of smoke for pretty much anyone who has to decide between the two, and if e-cigs are limited to tobacco flavoring, this rule could push some people back toward traditional cigarettes. And if real cigarettes are 20 times as dangerous as e-cigs, it doesn’t take much switching to cancel out the benefit of a reduction in vaping.

The forthcoming rule could also push people toward black-market products. Lately there has been much buzz about a mystery lung disease caused by “vaping” — but what it actually seems to be caused by is contaminated materials sold through illegitimate channels, including many that deliver THC instead of nicotine. Banning flavors would enlarge this market, and also encourage vapers to try to mix in flavorings themselves. One hopes they would find it easy to figure out which ingredients are safe to inhale and which are not. One is not too hopeful, however.

There’s also the tiny matter of the government telling everyone, including adults, what to do. Even if we take it at face value that teen vaping is a problem that demands government action beyond the minimum-age requirement already in place, there are ways to reduce it that don’t affect those of age — harsher punishments for selling to minors, information campaigns, even raising the age for flavored vapes to, say, 21 to reduce the number of minors who have friends who can buy them legally. But the administration has decided that if some teens are going to illegally vape liquids with names like Fruity Hoops, well then, no one can. One does not need to be a dyed-in-the-wool libertarian to be disgusted at this affront to personal freedom and responsibility.

Finally, there’s the insanity of the fact that a law passed in 2009, before the immense potential of vaping to reduce the harm of nicotine consumption became clear, is in 2019 enabling the FDA to assert its will over the entire industry. The law applies to “tobacco products,” including those derived from tobacco, and the nicotine in vaping liquids indeed generally comes from tobacco — so I do not dispute that the FDA does have this authority. Well, at least until the industry manages to make wider use of synthetic nicotine and prove, in court if necessary, that products made this way don’t fall under the FDA’s purview.

But the FDA shouldn’t have this authority. Congress should write laws, especially laws that ban entire product categories, not turn that power over to unelected busybodies who will opt for regulation over personal freedom every single time they encounter a choice between the two. The law is a mistake and should be changed, especially if the FDA is determined to abuse it in this way.

Adults should be free to do what they want, so long as they take responsibility for the consequences of their actions. That includes smoking. And it definitely includes the far safer alternative of vaping fruit-flavored e-juice.

Agreed.

 

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One of the only major polls to correctly predict the 2016 presidential election. USC / LA Times Dornsife Poll. Most of the mainstream media produced fake news and fake polls in 2016.

The average voter identify closer to Donald Trump more than any democrat, including Joe Biden.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/12/usc-la-times-voters-donald-trump-democrat-joe-biden/

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8 hours ago, Howe said:

One of the only major polls to correctly predict the 2016 presidential election. USC / LA Times Dornsife Poll. Most of the mainstream media produced fake news and fake polls in 2016.

The average voter identify closer to Donald Trump more than any democrat, including Joe Biden.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/12/usc-la-times-voters-donald-trump-democrat-joe-biden/

You read the daily caller? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

On 9/12/2019 at 10:19 AM, Howe said:

 

Lol. 

Donald Trump Jr has a better chance of being in jail in 2024 then running for President. 

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2 hours ago, Ultimate Warrior said:

You read the daily caller? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Lol. 

Donald Trump Jr has a better chance of being in jail in 2024 then running for President. 

The USC Dornsife Poll is not the Daily Caller Poll. The USC Dornsife Poll had Trump leading nearly the entire 2016 campaign. Unlike the fake polls from mainstream media outlets.

Perhaps the Great Robert Mueller is closing in on Donald Trump Jr. Most of the GID democrats assured us of the integrity and intelligence of the Great Mueller during his entire $30,000,000 investigation debacle. His integrity and intelligence was on full display during the Mueller hearing. I haven't seen a single comment posted by the king of GID democrats since the Great Mueller investigation imploded.

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On 9/16/2019 at 3:25 AM, Howe said:

The USC Dornsife Poll is not the Daily Caller Poll. The USC Dornsife Poll had Trump leading nearly the entire 2016 campaign. Unlike the fake polls from mainstream media outlets.

Perhaps the Great Robert Mueller is closing in on Donald Trump Jr. Most of the GID democrats assured us of the integrity and intelligence of the Great Mueller during his entire $30,000,000 investigation debacle. His integrity and intelligence was on full display during the Mueller hearing. I haven't seen a single comment posted by the king of GID democrats since the Great Mueller investigation imploded.

Debacle?

Michael Cohen is in jail. Paul Manafort is in jail. Michael Flynn is in deep stuff... As is Roger Stone and Rick Gates. 

Mueller provided 10 different situations on how Trump obstructed justice. The Mueller report did not exonerate him and actually the Mueller investigation made the Government $$$. I truly believe Barr ended the Mueller investigation and I know he made the investigation a lot harder then it should have been. 

 

Donald Trump won the race by less than 78,000 votes. I could see him losing Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Hes worse off now then what he was in 2016. If you can't see that you are blind.

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56 minutes ago, gonzoron said:

So hes adding to the swamp? 

Its funny 

He said he drained the swamp but he added to it. 

MAGA humpers hate coastal elites and billionaires but yet they voted for one. They don't get it. They really don't. 

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On 9/17/2019 at 6:16 PM, Ultimate Warrior said:

Debacle?

Mueller provided 10 different situations on how Trump obstructed justice. The Mueller report did not exonerate him and actually the Mueller investigation made the Government $$$.

Yet Mueller failed to bring a single charge regarding obstruction. Mueller was humiliated by Republicans at that ridiculous Mueller hearing. It was hilarious. That fool has no authority to exonerate anyone. No one in the history of the United States Judicial System has ever been exonerated. 

Libtards are easily manipulated, gullible fools. They actually believe CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, Washington Post and the mainstream media fake news. Libtards are stupid.

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Most Powerful Person in the World Meets Donald Trump: https://gizmodo.com/most-powerful-person-in-the-world-meets-donald-trump-1838276087

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday. And while Zuck didn’t bother to mention the meeting on any of his social media channels, the president proudly posted a photo of the two men shaking hands on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram (which is also owned by Facebook).

Zuckerberg, arguably the most powerful person in the world as the leader of a company with data on over 2.3 billion people, was in Washington, D.C. on Thursday to meet with a number of legislators. One legislator, Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, even told Zuckerberg to sell off Instagram and WhatsApp, an idea that the billionaire Facebook founder was not willing to entertain.

Zuckerberg’s sit-down with President Trump reportedly included Dan Scavino, the White House Director of Social Media, but was not open to journalists and news photographers. A Facebook spokesperson told CBS News that the meeting with Trump was “good” and “constructive,” though the tech giant did not respond to questions from Gizmodo.

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Heh heh heh.

 

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Mike Pence takes eight-vehicle motorcade across island where cars have been banned for a century

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mike-pence-mackinac-island-cars-banned-motorcade-fournier-michigan-a9115631.html

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"The ban is so strictly enforced that when President Gerald Ford visited in 1975, he and first lady Betty Ford travelled by horse-drawn carriage."

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1 hour ago, Ultimate Warrior said:

There should be a blank. 

 

Cause if you pay attention to Fox News. You are mindless and have no brain.

Which news outlet reported more accurate information over the past two years on the Russia hoax? Fox or the liberal mainstream media fake news with their anonymous sources and conspirasy theories?

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Cronyism Yields a Bumper Crop With Farm Bailouts: https://reason.com/2019/09/26/cronyism-yields-a-bumper-crop-with-farm-bailouts/

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Stan Veuger of the American Enterprise Institute recently complained on Twitter that those who cared about cronyism when Barack Obama was president are suddenly very quiet about President Donald Trump's bailout of farmers. There is some truth to his complaint.

But first, it's wrong to say that everyone has been silent. The National Taxpayers Union, the Cato Institute, and others have complained and written against the bailouts. It's also wrong to assume that those, like me, who haven't made the bailouts a central focus of their work in spite of their past opposition to cronyism are silent for political reasons. Many of us are simply overextended, fighting the multifront attacks against freedom launched by Trump, the Democratic House, the Republican Senate, and the Democratic presidential candidates.

Cronyism is the unhealthy marriage between corporations, or other special interests, and the government. And farmers have been willing participants in this relationship for decades, at the expense of taxpayers and good economic policy. They've received subsidies and other government-granted privileges despite being relatively well-off and part of an industry that's not more subjected to adversity than many others. Conservative, free market, and even left-wing advocates have used buckets of ink complaining about the handouts.

On closer inspection, it's obvious that these farm bailouts are the culmination of everything that is wrong with cronyism. They came about after the president imposed duties on steel and aluminum in order to protect those industries from competition, which is cronyism. Then China, the European Union, Canada, and Mexico retaliated by targeting U.S. agricultural exports. From soybean to corn farms, from steel nails to bicycles, this trade war is hurting many businesses, some of which are closing their doors.

But none of Trump's trade war victims are as powerful and important a voting bloc as farmers, who secured two agriculture bailouts over the past two years, totaling $28 billion—so far. For perspective, Bloomberg reminds us that this "farm rescue is more than twice as expensive as the 2009 bailout of Detroit's Big Three automakers, which cost taxpayers $12 billion." Many Republicans at the time rightfully decried the auto bailout, yet most have nothing to say about the farm bailouts. Many have even joined in and demanded more for the farmers in their states.

Like regular farm subsidies, these bailouts are designed to shower largesse on the biggest farms. According to the Environmental Working Group, an outfit that has long opposed farm subsidies, one-tenth of the bailout recipients last year have received over half of the bailout payments, and 82 farmers have each received more than $500,000. Their report also notes that the top 1 percent of recipients of trade relief received $183,331 on average. The bottom 80 percent received less than $5,000 on average. It doesn't sound right, because smaller farms must be hurting the most. But it's naive to expect sensible policies from those who tried plugging a hole created by the trade war by paying out farmers rather than lifting the tariffs.

But that's precisely what's so disgusting about cronyism. It is, at its core, an exchange of government favors for loyalty in the voting booth. Nowhere is that more obvious than here. In fact, Trump almost seems proud of it, as he demonstrated during a recent call with farmers when he reminded them of the bailouts, saying, "I hope you like me even better than you did in '16." It's likely no coincidence that Midwestern states such as Indiana and Iowa, which backed Trump in 2016, will receive large payments just before the midterm elections. It could also explain why fruit growers in California or lobster farmers in Maine, both victims of the trade war but in Democratic territories, are receiving little to no bailout.

To recap: Trump started a trade war to protect his friends in the steel industry. That triggered severe retaliatory tariffs from our trade partners. Then the president, rather than lift all the tariffs, decided to extend two bailouts to farmers and farmers alone in order to ease their pain in time for the next election. And most Republicans now appear to be OK with—or silent about—this crony solution to protectionism. Paired with the fact that some of us haven't given the issue the attention it deserves, I can see why others, like Veuger, would think that conservatives are acting hypocritically. So much for principles.

 

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