Posted on 05/07/2011 9:03:01 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
Well yes. I was referring to the profit from the drug sales as being obscene.
Market distortion. Prices paid in blood fund cops, SWAT, loss of liberties, lawyers, congressional campaigns, and secret government coffers.
So in that respect yeah, obscene profit.
Nope.
US has the second highest rate of incarceration in the world. I think Norks are first.
Paraphrasing Rand - You can’t control a man unless he breaks laws. That’s the whole point of having so many of them.
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