Posted on 03/02/2015 4:10:45 AM PST by InvisibleChurch
ALL THAT REMAINS frontman Philip Labonte says that the "tax laws," not the police, were responsible for the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who was stopped for selling loose cigarettes in New York City and placed in an apparent chokehold by a white police officer.
Labonte recently made headlines in the rock media when he suggested that the obstacles faced by the lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (LGBT) community do not equal those experienced by the black community. Asked by Radio.com to clarify his comments, the singer said: "I think it was pretty clear. African-Americans have had a shit deal. You look at the prison system, I think black people [outnumber white people] six to one. You had slavery, you had Jim Crow, and now you've got— and this is something that [American politician] Rand Paul says — you have a racial outcome."
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Oh, by the way, beware of tart language.
Gardner was killed by the communism of Mayor DeBlovio
If it hadn’t been for the tax laws, Garner would not have been selling cigarettes in the first place.
Tax laws passed by whom, pray tell?
Yes, big government tax suckers killed Eric Garner.
Any law worth passing is worth killing someone over. Legislators take note.
As right as you are, what line of work would he have taken up?
The skills required to sell loose cigarettes are minimal, but the earnings are higher than other low skill jobs because the activity is illegal and there are risks.
This is a big problem. Jobs with even moderate pay require skills many workers do not have.
Everyone said that when the libs taxed ciggs to the moon, they would go on the black market because poor people, the population with the majority of smokers, could not afford the punitive taxes.
He is exactly right.
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