Are You On Crack Eliot??

[K3XR]

This is sweet.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=25080

[W4INF]

Wow... I would think you need to legalize drugs before you could attempt to tax them. :cool:

[n2nh]

No, there were plenty of cases where the Federal government couldn't get a conviction on drugs, but still managed to get a conviction on unpaid taxes on the drugs. Especially in the 60s and 70s. I believe it started in the reign of Republican "I AM NOT A CROOK" King Dick I.

Nothing new here.

[ab1ga]

Al Capone?

[n2nh]

Wow DannO! Was it the fact that it was NY that floats your boat? Or was it just another partisian hack piece showing that you're clueless?


Illegal drug tax: On Jan. 1, Tennessee became the latest of 23 states to institute a tax for possession of illegal drugs. Usually, you have to be in possession of a minimum quantity, say over 42.5 grams of marijuana in North Carolina, to be subject to the tax.

In Tennessee, when you acquire an illegal drug (even "moonshine"), you have 48 hours to report to the Department of Revenue and pay your tax, in exchange for which you'll receive stamps to affix to your illegal substance. The stamps serve as evidence you paid the tax on the illegal product.

Don't worry that you might get in trouble for admitting you have enough drugs to fuel a rave party for years. You need not provide identification to get the stamps and it's illegal for revenue employees to rat you out.

Still, next door in North Carolina, which has had a similar law for 15 years, only 79 folks have voluntarily come forward since 1990, according to the Department of Revenue. Most were thought to be stamp collectors, or perhaps just high. Another 72,000 were taxed after they were already busted.

North Carolina has collected $78.3 million thus far, almost all from those arrested and found without stamps.

Strange Taxes (http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/18/pf/taxes/strangetaxesupdate/)

Eyewitness Account from Red-State land. (http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/537.html)

FEDERAL CASE EXAMPLE:

"Robert Paul Sharp appeals his conviction and sentence for several charges arising from the distribution of marijuana and cocaine. Specifically, Sharp contends that the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction for conspiracy to distribute marijuana and cocaine, for maintaining a place for the purpose of such distribution, for witness tampering in connection with the investigation into his drug dealings, and for conspiracy to defraud the United States by evading and defeating the lawful governmental functions of the Internal Revenue Service."

Document of Appeal in case where the IRS won tax evasion charges against illegal drug sales. (http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F3/4/4.F3d.988_6.html)

[KB9YCO]

More pointless BS in a pointless drug "war" that isn't being won and will continue to not be as long as the root causes and problems of addiction and useage of hard drugs is overlooked. These people are so clueless as to think that they can tax people that are already outside of the law. It makes about as much sense as gun registration to cut crime when in reality much of the gun crime is by people that illegally obtained guns in the first place. It just doesn't make sense but I guess it makes the extremist drug paranoia (Reefer Madness anyone?) and control crowd feel better about themselves. What a waste of time.

[KC2QXE]

The purpose of the new law isn't to have more things to charge a drug dealer with, that would sort of be ok, although I am sure current laws could handle the tax evasion part. No the reason this law is stupid is because he expects the state to raise money from this. He actually believes this.

[kc2orw]

The purpose of the new law isn't to have more things to charge a drug dealer with, that would sort of be ok, although I am sure current laws could handle the tax evasion part. No the reason this law is stupid is because he expects the state to raise money from this. He actually believes this.
There were way better Democrats who wanted the office of Governor but they pushed them out in favor of this turkey. They, the party, wanted rocks stars in the state of NY and not people with ideas. I was hoping Tom Suozzi would have been the choice instead of the allegedly erratic Eliot Spitzer, guess we can drop allegedly now.