The credit card companies have caved to pressure from tax and spend states like New York, California, and Oregon, and have agreed to no longer allow their cards to be used to purchase tobacco over the internet. The high tax states pressured them into an agreement because they were losing millions of dollars to the low tax states through internet purchases.

On the surface, this is just another victory for the pleasure police. But I wonder what will happen when states do the same thing with internet sales taxes, commuter income taxes, and other business conducted outside their borders.

Maybe that Discover card is worth something afterall.