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A friend of mine from Wisconsin told me about his uncle who had been a contraband cheese smuggler, because Wisconsin has a bunch of protectionist measures in place for its dairy industry.
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Did he make his living that way? My feeling about it is that if they can tax or tariff it, we can dodge the tax or tariff, as long as we don’t get caught. The state is very, very strict with very, very hard sentences when it comes to undercutting them and taking their profits or stealing from them. The whole thing is not to get caught, though.
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I think it was more of a weekend side hustle. The story I heard involved him forgetting about a trunkfull of cheese on a very hot weekend.
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Wow, I guess he could have sold it as Very Aged out of state cheese! :)
There were things to smuggle do self-organized free trade from surrounding states to my state, too. One of them was something called Everclear which was, or perhaps is, 100% potable grain alcohol. It was prohibited in my state, so the sale price was about 4 times the buying price in another state. Only done on the weekends and when there was a need for extra cash.
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smugglingself-organized free trade. If you think there is a problem withsmugglingself-organized free trade now, in various areas of the economy, then just wait until the heavy tariffs go into effect. Cigarettes are a good example of thesmugglingself-organized free trade problem when you can buy them tax-free in one state and move them to a high tax state and undersell them to others. Tax or no tax, people will buy them cheaper, won’t they?