To: ruiner
This is the first time in the past 1,000 years that the government has attempted to control substances through taxes or restrictions and the result was a black market.
IIRC, Prohibition Act and a Constitutional amendment. Didn't work then, either. People will only accept so much government and then they rebel. Seems the British encountered a similar sort of problem with some tea in Boston Harbor some 225 years ago.
11 posted on
04/16/2005 7:33:45 AM PDT by
TomGuy
(America: Best friend or worst enemy. Choose wisely.)
To: TomGuy
[ People will only accept so much government and then they rebel. ]
Unless over 50% of the people recieve "something" from gov't largess..
Like Canada... France.. etc..
51 posted on
04/17/2005 9:53:08 AM PDT by
hosepipe
(This Propaganda has been edited to include not a small amount of Hyperbole..)
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