AMEN and don’t forget Mayor DeBlasio
Rush Limbaugh nailed it a few weeks ago.
New York state, back to the taxes here, New York state imposes a tax of $4.35 a pack. That's the highest of any state. That's on top of the local New York City tax of a buck sixty, which is also the highest of any city. The mayor, de Blasio, had just ordered the police to crack down on illegal cigarettes a few weeks before the Garner incident. He did that.De Blasio is running around (imitating de Blasio), "What happened? This is outrageous. Look at all this excessive force." Well, yeah, that's what you tax collectors -- somebody had to mandate. I'm not suggesting somebody told the cops go out and kill these people, but it's just so out of proportion. It is so out of proportion. And I'm telling you, everywhere you look where some of this stuff is happening, inexplicable stuff, who's running the show? It turns out wherever you turn, liberals are running the show.
Now, the media has skipped over some details about Garner's arrest. The police were sent to arrest Garner because local minority-owned businesses were complaining he was driving business away and that he was competing with businesses that sold cigarettes by selling illegal, untaxed cigarettes one at a time, loosies, so the cops were called. A second fact that the media is conveniently ignoring is it was a black precinct chief who ordered the police to arrest Garner, and a third fact is the arresting police team was under the supervision of a black female police sergeant.