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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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To: curlewbird
No inebriation without taxation!
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:31:41 PM PDT
by
Wristpin
("The Yankees announce plan to buy every player in Baseball....")
To: El Gato
No. NFA is a tax on legal products.
To: curlewbird
In Illinois it was supposed to accompany the 'product' kind of like the one a cigarette package.
I don't know if they still sell them or not.
L
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posted on
07/16/2006 8:36:49 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(2 months and still no Bill from Congressman Pence. What is he milking squids for the ink?)
To: Know your rights
When I first saw this article I thought they were talking about kids with their pants hanging below their waist showing their underwear. I was gonna say instead of taxing them they should fine them for indecency.
Government (state, local, and da fedz) trying to find more money schemes to fund their enormous debt.
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posted on
07/16/2006 9:09:35 PM PDT
by
srotaG adirolF
(Hater of all things democRat)
To: billybudd
...the government trying to have it both ways.Yep.
To: Know your rights
Should the state have to prove that I was actually productive before it punishes my productivity with an income tax?
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posted on
07/16/2006 11:10:53 PM PDT
by
DancesWithBolsheviks
(Fatigued with the party always being in my backyard.)
To: curlewbird
This law was passed to make seizure of drug dealer assets easier. Before, law enforcement had to go through foreiture proceedings, which was a drawn out process. When it comes to the tax, if you have a stamp you can't be assessed and your assets seized for the tax liability. No stamp, then you're out of luck. The law was based on a 10 year old North Carolina law. This does not keep you out of jail. It merely makes it harder for the state to seize a drug dealer's assets if he has the stamp. And taxpayer confidentiality laws prevent the information from being relayed to law enforcement if someone does buy a stamp.
To: nemesis443
wow...the WOD has gotten really weird...
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posted on
07/17/2006 1:46:48 AM PDT
by
gdc314
To: Know your rights
To: ChildOfThe60s
The same way hookers report their income ~ use Form 1040.
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posted on
07/17/2006 5:52:57 AM PDT
by
muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
But don't they have to get 1099's from them clients?
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posted on
07/17/2006 6:42:21 AM PDT
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s...you weren't really there.)
To: ChildOfThe60s
Nope ~ IRS will take your word for it.
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posted on
07/17/2006 6:43:14 AM PDT
by
muawiyah
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To: Know your rights
Isn't this the way they caught Al Capone????
This judge must have been snorting some hot stuff before he came up with this decision. They should check his nostrils out.
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posted on
07/17/2006 6:54:47 AM PDT
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
To: LenS
The tax evasion question does offer some parallels, but only addresses undeclared income. However, the Crack Tax requires that the person charged must either admit or deny possession, which is a form self-incrimination and therefore unconstitutional.
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posted on
07/17/2006 11:20:23 AM PDT
by
baltoga
To: baltoga
Maybe it's not a form of self-incrimination. Property taxes, and excise taxes, both require you to declare what you have. In a couple of hundred years of operation under this Constitution in this country, folks have not gotten away with avoidng tax payments on stuff just because it wasn't legal to possess it.
BTW, this "crack tax" is an excise tax is it not? The Constitution lays few restrictions on such things.
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posted on
07/17/2006 3:30:12 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
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To: Know your rights
Allow me..
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posted on
07/17/2006 3:33:21 PM PDT
by
AndrewB
To: AndrewB
"The requested URL /images?q=tbn:Y3SbJZhyDaNugM:www.armyofmom.com/4-8-06%2520redneck%2520butt%2520crack.jpg was not found on this server."
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posted on
07/17/2006 3:35:01 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: baltoga
Only if they're talking to the police. The Department Of Revenue under the law has to treat anyone who buys a stamp the same as they have to with a business filing sales tax or an individual filing on his interest income and dividends ( the only individual income taxed in Tennessee). It is confidential taxpayer information.
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