A "black market" is just like any other market, except it doesn't enjoy government approval. It's just one more example of how government interference in the free market has unintended consequences.

Seriously, with all of the real crime in New York, they have enough time to send out undercover cops to catch people selling cigarettes? That sort of tells you where their priorities are.

Will this be the tipping point, where Americans finally say, "Enough is enough?" I don't know, but it seems to me that if it isn't, that tipping point isn't too far off.

Onward and upward,
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