Imigration in America

[kandrathe]

Yea, the gang violence over cigarette and alcohol territory is insane. Oh wait, it doesn't exist in any significant amount. What sort of market share do you think untaxed cigarettes and alcohol have? A couple percent maybe? Even with untaxed cigarettes being a fraction of the cost of legal ones, people still buy the taxed ones. Why? Because the risk and effort aren't worth it. You really think the majority of people would rather talk to some back alley thug to save a couple bucks than swing by the gas station?

I think you might live in ignorance of what *real* organized crime looks like, and how they distribute their goods.

"Illegal tobacco trade accounts for about 10% of global tobacco sales and costs governments between $40 billion and $50 billion in lost tax revenue per year, according to the Framework Convention Alliance, a coalition of more than 300 campaign groups."

http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/tobacco/

"The illicit trafficking of tobacco is a multibillion-dollar business today, fueling organized crime and corruption, robbing governments of needed tax money, and spurring addiction to a deadly product. So profitable is the trade that tobacco is the world’s most widely smuggled legal substance. This booming business now stretches from counterfeiters in China and renegade factories in Russia to Indian reservations in New York and warlords in Pakistan and North Africa."