Editor’s Note: A tax or regulation that puts a business out of business is a ban.
From: Washington City Paper
Posted by Morgan Baskin and Sarah Anne Hughes
But Robinson and other vape shop owners in D.C. say an all-but-approved tax increase on their products will force them out of business. Members of the D.C. Council, on the other hand, say the matter is a public health issue, plain and simple.
“They’re going to put us out of business,” Robinson says, “and they don’t care.”