The new tax would apply to cocaine, heroin and marijuana, and could be paid with pre-bought "tax stamps" affixed to the bags of dope.Talk about a mentally ill governor.
1 posted on
02/17/2008 7:26:05 AM PST by
jdm
To: jdm
ROTFL! This guy is off the wall! I figured that out years ago, what the heck is wrong with NY.
2 posted on
02/17/2008 7:28:15 AM PST by
alice_in_bubbaland
(Vote Obillary! And we'll be picking shrapnel out of our butts for decades!)
To: jdm
If New York taxed stupidity Spitzer alone could settle the national debt. What a dumbass.
3 posted on
02/17/2008 7:28:54 AM PST by
ARE SOLE
(Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.. (A "Concerned Citizen".)
To: jdm
I went to the site to look around, is this like scrappleface? LOL
4 posted on
02/17/2008 7:28:57 AM PST by
tioga
(Beware: conservative with back to the wall. Proceed with extreme caution.)
To: jdm
Well hey, there is a precedent for this. The feds made Big Al liable for income taxes on his illegal booze profits and sent him to Alcatraz for not paying them.
6 posted on
02/17/2008 7:30:57 AM PST by
Emperor Palpatine
("There is no civility, only politics.")
To: jdm
Having a moron for a goobernor is soooo much phun...
7 posted on
02/17/2008 7:32:18 AM PST by
xcamel
(Two-hand-voting now in play - One on lever, other holding nose.)
To: jdm
It’s already the law in a few states.
8 posted on
02/17/2008 7:35:07 AM PST by
Wolfie
To: jdm
This is why drugs are big business and here to stay. Everyone wants a cut.
9 posted on
02/17/2008 7:37:25 AM PST by
TribalPrincess2U
(I heard it on the grapevine and saw it in the paper, so it must be true.)
To: jdm; tioga
The tax law idea is nothing new - that is how the feds outlawed drugs in the first place.
The moronic part - and I mean astoundingly stupid - is that Spitzer, in his budget, claimed that they would be paid.
10 posted on
02/17/2008 7:37:41 AM PST by
patton
(cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
To: jdm
Who left the lock off of his cage?
12 posted on
02/17/2008 7:43:34 AM PST by
Don Corleone
(Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
To: jdm
This is just backdoor legalization.
16 posted on
02/17/2008 7:52:31 AM PST by
palmer
To: jdm
18 posted on
02/17/2008 8:28:24 AM PST by
Cacique
(quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
To: jdm
NY,NJ, sinking ships, the cancer has won!
19 posted on
02/17/2008 8:31:05 AM PST by
ronnie raygun
(Id rather be hunting with dick than driving with ted)
To: jdm
I believe, at the federal level, the laws against (some) drugs were tax laws. Just like the law, National Firearms Act of 1934, restricting machine guns, short barreled guns and other weapons was and is a tax measure. Or at least it pretends to be. In fact the NFA was patterned after the Harrison Narcotics Act which had been “vetted” by the Supreme Court at the time the NFA was passed. In fact the same Mr Justice McReynolds, wrote both that opinion,
Alston v. United States, 274 U.S. 289 (1927) and the
Miller case concerning a short shotgun under the NFA.
21 posted on
02/17/2008 9:24:15 AM PST by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
To: jdm
Actually, marijuana is not illegal.
Hemp is a very useful organic fiber that has been grown for thousands of years. George Washington grew it. During WWII the prohibition was suspended so farmers could supply hemp for rope for the war effort.
Congress knew they could never outlaw it, so they passed a tax on it. In order to possess it, you must buy a tax stamp from the Feds. Same with sawed-off shotguns and fully-automatic weapons - you can own them if you buy the tax stamp.
The trick is they made the cost of the stamp prohibitively high with hemp/marijuana.
22 posted on
02/17/2008 9:40:41 AM PST by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
To: jdm
Medical marijuana is legal in California but illegal federally. Our County Auditor has floated the idea of taxing the growth of marijuana in the county. It would really help our County coffers decimated by loss of the timber industry.
23 posted on
02/17/2008 10:41:23 AM PST by
marsh2
To: jdm
Not the first to pass a law, but the first to actually believe the state can fill a budget deficit from it.
To: jdm
Spitzer was always acting on the very fringe of illegality as a AG and people applauded him because “he was going after them”. There is a lesson here for everyone, if the rules are bent for a good cause there is nothing that says they won’t be bent for what you don’t think is such a good cause next time.
25 posted on
02/17/2008 4:39:46 PM PST by
kublia khan
(Absolute war brings total victory)
To: jdm
Wallstreet is not going to be happy about this.
26 posted on
02/17/2008 10:21:51 PM PST by
Fred
(Looking Forward to Impeaching the other Clinton)
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