Posted on 04/15/2015 7:49:04 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
As six armed officers pour out of two unmarked Ford Explorers on a Long Island City street corner, you can see the confusion on the faces of gawkers and passersby. One woman looks up from her phone and does a sitcom-worthy double-take when she notices their windbreakers, embossed with the word "SHERIFF" in big gold letters, front and back. That might be because few have ever heard of the New York City Sheriff's Office. But those who have know what happens next. And, not surprisingly, when they burst into a corner store near 40th Avenue and 21st Street, the clerk seems not at all shocked, nor particularly concerned, to see them. This is not his first rodeo, as it were.
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If a tax is based on the honor system, people will always find ways to evade them.
This reminds me of the old Soviet Union. Stealing from the state was a greater offense than murder. Embezzlers faced the death penalty.
In 2013, I was buying cartons of Marlboro Reds in the Republic of Georgia for $6. Smuggling them over here is easy. They're not illegal drugs. You don't have dogs at customs sniffing them out.
I’ve crossed into Canada where you can bring 1 carton per person with you. In NJ we have an average of 15,000 foreigners landing here every day (by my estimates) to get on the dole, so figure how many of their relatives’ bodegas/Quik-E-Marts end up with all of those cartons...
40+ ounce soda cups are black marketed as well.
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