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To: SmithL
The tax requires people possessing illegal drugs to buy tax stamps, offered with an assurance the tax will be kept confidential.

"We will not prosecute you if you give us a cut."

The potential here for officially-sanctioned bribery of public officials by drugdealers is enormous.

This could be one of the dumbest laws I've heard of in a while.

3 posted on 09/07/2007 10:44:03 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: wideawake

Agreed. I would like to see some enterprising reporter or documentarian buy a tax stamp before a hidden camera to see what happens.


5 posted on 09/07/2007 10:47:07 AM PDT by Huntress (Those who surrender liberty for security will have neither. --- Benjamin Franklin)
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To: wideawake

When it was passed it was supposed to be based on existing laws in other states; I couln’t name them right now.


6 posted on 09/07/2007 10:49:09 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: wideawake

Actually, this was the methodology of 18th amendment prohibition. The federal enforcers were “revenooers” who were agents of the Treasury, not specifically law enforcement. This kind of tax on illegal substances is actually rather commonplace, and can be described as a “tax trap”, a way to create a penalty situation where other lawbreaking is hard to prove. Like they got Al Capone.


8 posted on 09/07/2007 10:54:21 AM PDT by MainFrame65 (The US Senate: World's greatest PREVARICATIVE body!)
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To: wideawake
The potential here for officially-sanctioned bribery of public officials by drugdealers is enormous.

Illinois has had a marijuana tax on the books for the last 25 years or so. To my knowledge, no one has ever been prosecuted for not affixing one to their weed.

A friend of mine actually bought one. He's a stamp collector.

L

9 posted on 09/07/2007 11:01:34 AM PDT by Lurker ( Comparing moderate islam to extremist islam is like comparing smallpox to ebola.)
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