Posted on 09/23/2002 2:22:23 AM PDT by kattracks
I fail to see a problem here. Go smugglers!
If government won't restrain itself, perhaps we can even find additional ways to strangle it.
The ATF will blame anything on terrorists now in order to increase their budgets.
Come to think of it... WHEN was the last time that government came up with a really good idea???
And you and your statist friends set up the conditions favorable for these elements to get involved, Mr Dugan.
So what should you do now? Drop the taxes or spend more public money to combat tobacco crimes?
When the government waylays consumers with excessive and unjustified taxation such as this - then it is they who are supporting organized crime and street gangs.
If they didn't know this was going to happen, then they're even bigger fools than I thought.
Very true! The lawmakers think we are all sheeple out here. They are in for a rude awakening! We have voted them into office and pay their salaries, just to have them turn around and stick it to us. The time has come to just say NO to these idiots!
The FEDS better start with online auctions first! How can they collect taxes on one product and not the whole sheebang! This is rediculous!
I like that. A LOT!!!
"This tax increase is more about saving lives - mostly about saving young lives - than it is about revenues...",
Uh...yeah...right.
Say hello to Prohibition two, I mean three.
This goes way beyond the ATF. They are looking for a piece of the "Office of Reich Security Office" pie. Just wait until Bubba "The Messian" Bush has that up and running,and then notice how THEY start creating "administrative crimes",just like the ATF does. Don't even need that "stroke of the pen" nonsense. All they have to do is make a administrative ruling,and publish it in the feral register.
Meanwhile,the Bush-Bots are all busy leading us in choruses of "If you're happy and you know it,clank your chains!"
They are correct. Remember reading these words?
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish itJust think what the likes of Charles Carroll, John Adams, Button Gwinnett would have done about the government we have today(list of abuses)
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
They are in for a rude awakening!
Anyone who thinks that the sheeple are going to do anything about it is in for a rude awakening. You're from New England aintcha? Look at who your senators are. Look at the voting records of your reps. Look at how popular that neo-Nazi fascist Guiliani is. All New Englanders are going to do is continue to vote for socialists because they are (statistically speaking, on the average) too stupid and too self absorbed to realize that government promises are sh!t nine times out of ten, and the tenth time the bureaucrats just take your own money and then pretend to give it back to you.
I saw conservative Bob Smith lose. When upChuckie Schemer, Jeffords, Kennedy, Dodd, Clinton, etc are tossed out on their butts then I'll believe that the politicians have a rude awakening coming. Until that time y'all in new england just practice saying "baaaaa" and get used to being treated the way a shepard treats his flock.
Eventually, you would hear about how much revenue is being lost from the people who grow their own. You think the WOD is bad now? Wait until there's lost federal/state/city revenue involved.
Too self absorbed. Truer words were never spoken! People wear blinders. As long as the people are happy in their own little worlds, they figure "Let the Government take care of itself." And that's what got us into this fix. The Government IS taking care of itself, and to hell with the rest of us.
And yes, living in New England is rough. Too many liberals at the helm. It's driving me nuts!
When pot is legalized, I predict that many people will grow their own and most pot will be tax untouchable.
When it is RElegalized, there will be no need for bootleggers and gangs.
You are talking about taxes here, there will always be tax avoidance. The amount depends on the level of taxation.
Sorry to hear it. It's bad here, but at least we have a few vestiges of freedom left. I can't imagine living in police states like MA or NY.
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