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Nashville Judge: Crack Tax Unconstitutional
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| Jul 12, 2006
Posted on 07/16/2006 7:58:12 PM PDT by Know your rights
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posted on
07/16/2006 7:59:45 PM PDT
by
freepatriot32
(Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
To: Know your rights
Well, well, well ~ now we know what the judge does for funzies.
Least he's not into the kiddies.
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posted on
07/16/2006 7:59:49 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
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To: Know your rights
Crack Tax UnconstitutionalBarney Frank flew into a rage on the House floor over this until someone told him it's about the OTHER kind of crack, not the one HE'S addicted to, but the Marion Barry type....
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:04:28 PM PDT
by
Darkwolf377
(http://www.savethesoldiers.com/)
To: muawiyah
"Well, well, well ~ now we know what the judge does for funzies.
Least he's not into the kiddies."
Might presumptious of you isnt it?? The war on drugs has been the source of MANY abuses of our constitutional rights. Half the people in federal prison are there for drug related crimes. Police are confiscating anything they feel is drug related and citizens are forced to prove their innocent.
Drugs do an incredible amount of damage. The war on drugs seems to be catching whats left.
To: muawiyah
now we know what the judge does for funzies.We do? How?
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:05:49 PM PDT
by
Know your rights
(The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
To: Know your rights
Taxing illegal drugs is funny - the government trying to have it both ways. At least this judge has his head screwed on right.
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:07:23 PM PDT
by
billybudd
To: muawiyah
The judge got it right. It's unconstitutional.
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:08:03 PM PDT
by
baltoga
To: muawiyah
Yuck! Seriously, this judge seems to be pointing out the ridiculousness of the Marijuana Tax Act, where a substance that's illegal to possess by anyone is subject to atrociously inflated taxation if a person is found holding it. Such a bass-ackward law was poetically implemented my a man named Aslinger back in the 1930s.
To: Know your rights
Does this also make the National Firearms Act, which is based on the Harrison Narcotics Act, unconstitutional? Or would it if this were a federal case? Certainly the same logic applies.
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:09:12 PM PDT
by
El Gato
To: Know your rights
The Feds have charged big time drug people with tax evasion for not paying taxes on their profits in the past.
The logic of it has always escaped me. How are they supposed to report the income in order to pay taxes on it?
Twilight Zone
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:10:05 PM PDT
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s...you weren't really there.)
To: Know your rights
But the tax on a child's teddy bear... that's allowed.
To: Know your rights
Not being a fan of taxes, I'll take what I can get. Reducing taxation will always be a good thing for as long as I'm alive.
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:14:28 PM PDT
by
Axhandle
To: baltoga
I don't know about that. There's a long history of litigation at the Federal level dealing with income taxation of illegal activities. The courts have generally agreed that such taxation is legal. Heck, Congress even mandated that drug dealers can't deduct business expenses besides the actual costs of the "goods" -- i.e. no deductions for advertising expenses. *g* Though, other illegal activities such as prostitution can deduct normal business expenses (I recall reading about a case that dealt with prostitutes' clothing expenses).
I doubt that this judge's argument about self-incrimination hasn't been used by defense lawyers in the past. To be honest, it would be a bad precedent because it would establish the idea that only legal businesses get taxed.
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:15:13 PM PDT
by
LenS
To: ChildOfThe60s
Iowa has a drug tax stamp. I asked the question of our local county sherrif one time, do people really buy these things?? He said they did! He said that actually, most of the buyers are stamp collectors. ( I am sure they were checked out too!)
To: Know your rights
How can you tax something that's illegal? Illegal almost equals invisible.
(Or how do you tax SOMEONE that's illegal)
To: curlewbird
We've got 'em here in IL as well. I bought one a few years back as a souvenir.
L
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:20:46 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(2 months and still no Bill from Congressman Pence. What is he milking squids for the ink?)
To: curlewbird
The South Carolina stamp epitomizes the absurdity of it all:
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:22:08 PM PDT
by
AntiGuv
("..I do things for political expediency.." - Sen. John McCain on FOX News)
To: Lurker
Suuuuuurrrrreeee!! A souvenir, eh??!! LOL!!
To: AntiGuv
So, just where exactly is someone supposed to keep that thing?? In their wallet, so if they get busted with drugs, they can say, "Look, I paid my tax"??!!
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