Sad news from my home state

 From the agitator blog:

Starting today (Sept 27), state Department of Revenue agents will begin stopping Tennessee motorists spotted buying large quantities of cigarettes in border states, then charging them with a crime and, in some cases, seizing their cars.

Critics say the new “cigarette surveillance program” amounts to the use of “police state” tactics and wrongfully interferes with interstate commerce. But state Revenue Commissioner Reagan Farr says his department is simply doing its job, enforcing a valid state law while protecting Tennessee retailers who properly pay state taxes.

Many states claim they can charge you sales tax on everything you buy out of state, too. Not just cigarettes. Everything. And that would be in addition to the sales tax you pay in the state where you made the initial purchase.

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