Posted on 11/04/2018 6:34:20 AM PST by Seruzawa
Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin Guzman “El Chapo” Loera may be going on trial tomorrow in Brooklyn federal court, but the billion dollar cartel he founded is still flourishing under the direction of his two favorite sons.
“… The defendant’s sons remain in charge of his vast drug trafficking empire,” reads a recent letter from the US Attorneys preparing to try Guzman’s case.
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How much of that billion is our tax dollars funneled through social programs?
These guys are a legitimate target for military strike to take them out.. No doubt they have contacts in the Mexican govt that know where they are and are sheltering them. They kill thousands of our citizens every year. That is the kind of war we should be fighting. Forget police and courts...it will never get the job done.
I think you may be on to something....
One of the best proposals (Ted Cruz) for funding building the wall, was to use asset forfeiture from criminals.
El Chapo (Shorty) is reputed to have $13 billion in assets that could be seized if he is convicted - Enough to build a thousand miles of high end barrier ($13 mil/mile, Trump barrier ranges from $4 mil to $25 mil/mile).
One good thing about this proposal - a Mexican would be paying for the wall.
An even better proposal for wall funding (Alabama Congressman Bradley Byrne), is to create a special account for that purpose, and allow the President or Congress to sweep any extra money into it, including non-appropriated revenues like asset forfeiture, or possibly tariffs.
If enough categories are opened for contributions, the Administration could be incentivized to find cost savings or revenues for the wall, and after the wall was funded, those savings or revenues would be improvements to the baseline budget.
If we can set aside the other cost/benefit issues of the prohibition of mind altering drugs for a moment, I fail to see how the existence of criminal gangs means “the war on drugs can’t be won.” By that measure no law can be enforced because the crime never goes away.
I find this perversely heartwarming. Many wealthy, powerful parents hope that their offspring can inherit and grow the family business, but often it doesn’t work out.
The Clintons hoped that Chelsea could continue their political/fake charity grifting, but it’s becoming obvious she’s not up to the task.
John Gotti’s son is not up to the task.
Nth generation Kennedy’s usually are a weak imitation of their forbears.
The Baby Bushes are trying, but with only modest success.
Young Soros has the will, but it remains to be seen if he has the way.
Bet he wishes Hitlery had won. He’d be free and running his business.
It's not their existence, it's the market pressure for their replacement when arrested (or killed) - a pressure that does not exist for crimes with direct victims, but only for consensual adult vices.
What’s the market pressure for robbery, counterfitting, and extortion? It seems to me that crime is the market pressure.
None - that's my point.
It seems to me that crime is the market pressure.
No, when criminals are meeting their own demand for e.g. the proceeds of robbery, arresting them decreases that demand. By contrast, when a drug dealer is arrested, drug buyers' demand for drugs remains.
When a mob boss is arrested, the non drug related criminal activities continue with another leader just as they do with drug related crimes. Furthermore, cartel drug crimes continue even after legalization.
Furthermore you miss demand in non drug related crimes too easily. There is most certainly demand for “hot” merchandise that can be sold for half the retail price. Hijacking trailer loads of merchandise and selling the products to unscrupulous retailers is an old mafia business. I don’t see that any different from the drug business in terms of supply and demand. Same with non-taxed cigarettes.
How much crime is mafia-committed? And where is the market demand for rape or murder? It's very much not the case that "By that measure no law can be enforced because the crime never goes away."
If you overtax any product, you’re going to get a black market. The example of cigarettes makes that point.
Cigarettes are “smuggled” out of low-tax states into places like NY where the taxes are prohibitive.
From the National Tax Foundation, 2015 figures =>
Excessive tax rates on cigarettes approach de facto prohibition in some states, inducing black and gray market movement of tobacco products into high-tax states from low-tax states or foreign sources.
New York has the highest inbound smuggling activity, with an estimated 56.8 percent of cigarettes consumed in the state deriving from smuggled sources in 2015. New York is followed by Arizona (44.8 percent of consumption smuggled), Washington (43.7 percent), New Mexico (41.4 percent), and Minnesota (35.9 percent).
New Hampshire has the highest level of outbound smuggling at 71.9 percent of consumption, likely due to its relatively low tax rates and proximity to high-tax states in the northeastern United States. Following New Hampshire is Idaho (22.5 percent outbound smuggling), Virginia (20.7 percent), Delaware (20.3 percent), and West Virginia (18.4 percent).
https://taxfoundation.org/cigarette-tax-cigarette-smuggling-2015/
I still fail to see how one drug kingpin replacing another is fundamentally different than with other kinds of criminal structures.
As for rape in murder, I’m not sure why you even brought those crimes up.
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