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tax stamp for a gram of marijuana would cost $3.50, and $200 for a gram of cocaine,

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according to the governor's program.

 

Governor sees levy as way to help state cut budget deficit

 

That seems to be the axiom in New York these days, where Democratic Gov. Eliot Spitzer, struggling to close a $4.4 billion budget gap, has proposed making drug dealers pay tax on their stashes of illegal drugs. The new tax would apply to cocaine, heroin and marijuana, and could be paid with pre-bought "tax stamps" affixed to the bags of dope.

 

Some critics in the legislature are asking what the governor has been smoking.

 

:pointstosky: :shocking: :bandana:

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Ok let me get this right. You are going to require drug dealers to get a tax stamp on ILLEGAL DRUGS? Why not just make them legal and tax the sh!t out of them?

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This would pixx off prosecutors big time. One of the main charges they get on drug dealers is failure to afix tax stamps :pointstosky:

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