Posted on 01/14/2005 9:09:13 PM PST by Zon
N.Y. asks online cigarette buyers to cough up tax
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday that smokers who bought cigarettes over the Internet had better be prepared to cough up taxes they tried to avoid by going online.
"The law says you got to pay your taxes. The handful of people who don't are just stealing from the rest of us," Bloomberg said in a weekly radio address.
The city's finance department this week sent letters to 3,700 smokers asking them to fork over $1.3 million in city taxes from Internet tobacco purchases.
The annual loss to the city from online tobacco sales totals $40 million, according to Joanna Perlman, a finance department spokeswoman. Some individuals owed as much as $10,000.
"If you have a bill for $10,000 for cigarette taxes, you're a dealer, you're not just smoking," Bloomberg said.
"The finance commissioner is required by the city charter to enforce the law. It's against the law to buy something out of state and bring it in and avoid sales tax," he said.
Overthrow it? Not hardly.
As for natural law having no bearing on a state that exists, natural law is the reason our COUNTRY exists!
Christianity is part of the Common, or Natural Law. Therefore it is Christianity that is the basis of our government. Religion of any other type is not synonymous with the American experience of Liberty!"
God . . . is the promulgator as well as the author of natural law.
Justice James Wilson, a signer of the Declaration, the Constitution, Original Justice on the U. S. Supreme Court, and the father of the first organized legal training in America.
[T]he laws of nature . . . of course presupposes the existence of a God, the moral ruler of the universe, and a rule of right and wrong, of just and unjust, binding upon man, preceding all institutions of human society and government.
John Quincy Adams
The law of nature, “which, being coeval with mankind and dictated by God Himself, is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times. No human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this.”
Alexander Hamilton, Signer of the Constitution
Of course natural law is the basis for establishing new states apart from England. But we live in states that have their own constitutions. These states were created by individuals who exchanged their right to live apart from any state for the right to live in a state. The only way for them to reclaim their rights under natural law is to overthrow the current government, which is their right.
John William Smith is a natural blooded person. JOHN WILLIAM SMITH is a fiction created by the STATE. All legal documents including licenses use the STATE fiction name. In a court of law John William Smith represents JOHN WILLIAM SMITH just as his lawyer represents JOHN WILLIAM SMITH. JOHN WILLIAM SMITH is the defendant. The government doesn't have the power to impose fines or incarcerate John William Smith.
Bloomberg is a jerk off..He PERSONALLY HATES smokers and cigaretts . He helped to push the ptice of smokes through the roof in NYC ..$10 in machines in some places.Put a LOT of mom and pop stores out of business.NO ONE in town buys smokes in town NO ONE..So what did he expect to happen .He killed the night club business to with his ban and 100000 new petty quality of life laws.Stay the hell out of private business and peoples lives.
The spelling on a birth certificate is John William Smith.
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