Posted on 10/30/2013 3:38:46 PM PDT by sdnet
The bottom line answer to the question.
-PJ
Agreed.
As I always say, its not that our government doesn’t have enough money, its that they have too much.
There isn’t enough money in America to ease our debt, not the national debt and not even a single year’s debt.
The premise is faulty. It doesn’t matter how much revenue it might generate, the politicians will gladly spend it all and then get back to running up our debt anyway.
So the corner store is then also a “milk dealer”, and a “candy dealer”, and oh look, he’s selling lotto tickets, so he’s running a “numbers racket” too.
You could play games with language like that, or you could be a conservative and not demonize business owners just for engaging in free enterprise in legal goods.
You’re a kook. I said nothing to deride business owners. You should not be such a liberal knee jerker.
I hope you’re kidding.
Who do you think is selling people booze and cigarettes on the corner? Or trading them for food stamps? It’s the business owners. There’s no gang staking out territory on street corners doing this...
Of course it is, when so many smokers in the country cross state lines to avoid taxes. Anyone that is doing it in volume is selling it to businesses, not trying to deal them on the street.
They just sell the smuggled cigarettes like any other legal pack and nobody cares except the tax man.
Some people who receive food stamps trade them for booze and cigs. That is a fact.
They would spend that in about 15 seconds.
Okay, but they are mostly just going to the store and buying them with food stamps, because lots of the little corner stores just let them do that.
Anyway, I don’t see how people engaging in food stamp fraud makes any kind of argument about illegal drug dealing. It’s a pretty flimsy connection.
You can grow your own.
Regards to you.
Hope mine is! lol
You hit the nail on the head. Where will all the drug cops go? They aren’t going to be fired (unions).
They’ll be the ones “just doing their job” as they herd you into a FEMA reeducation camp.
High taxes did not drive cigarettes and alcohol underground. One can grow their own tobacco and make or distill their own booze - but they don’t.
Proponnents of legal marijuana argue that if high taxes on pot are too extreme - then grow your own. It’s very easy to do.
Except they forget there would then be a need to triple the drug agents out patrolling your backyard to be sure you aren’t in possession of untaxed and inlicensed marijuana.
You’re right.
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In many cities there are. |
Taxes on cigarettes are so high in NYC that....
60% of cigarettes sold in New York are smuggled: report
CNN ^ | 01/10/2013 | Aaron Smith
And you know who is profiting here? Paki's and islamists.
Same thing applies if marijuana is legalized and (predictably) the gubmint slaps a high tarriff on that joint. The cartels will happily undercut the price and the black market will continue to work and the WOD goes on.
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