Spitzer wants N.Y. to tax illegal drugs

http://prosites-prs.homestead.com/ ^ | February 18, 2008

[BGHater]

Nothing stops a business like taxes.

[monkeyshine]

This has to be a joke.

[2ndDivisionVet]

"Does he plan on doing the same to prostitutes?"

If you don't watch out, he'll hire you as a staffer with ideas like that...

[Paleo Conservative]

He’d probably plant illegal drugs on you just to have an excuse to tax you for possessing them.

[CTSeditor]

Further proof Eliot Spitzer is a clown. Hope those who voted for this azz are happy. Vote for Hillary so we can share with the entire country.

[Thermalseeker]

Tennessee tried this. It was declared unconstitutional.

[Thermalseeker]

Tennessee has been doing this for years.

You might want to check into that. Tennessee declared this practice unconstitutional about a year ago.....

[Pearls Before Swine]

Smacks of double jeopardy to me, plus it is an affront to the Fifth Amendment.

If you pay the tax, it is self-incrimination.

If you don’t, you’re penalized twice if you are found with contraband.

I know... you can make technical arguments that these would now be separate offenses, or that the taxing authorities wouldn’t communicate with the police, but come on....

[Liz]

Yeah, he's crazy like a fox. He does NOTHING unless it advances his political ambitions.

During Spitler's 1998 AG campaign, he indignantly denied allegations by his GOP opponent, Dennis Vacco (Vacco is a top-notch pro-life conservative), that Spitler's wealthy father had provided millions in loans to his AG campaign. Candidate Spitzer insisted he was using only his own money (family members are limited by law to $110,000 in total contributions) and accused Vacco of "smearing" his father.

Not until he'd actually taken office did Spitzer admit that Dennis Vacco had been correct, after all. In fact, it turned out Spitzer, despite earlier denials, had done the exact same thing during his unsuccessful 1994 run for AG.

LET'S SEE: Now how did the loving Spitzer family convert all that money to sonny's election? The altruistic Spitzer family runs a "do-good foundation."

Now the IRS has noted that some tax-exempt foundations are prime money laundering vehicles that use phony accounting and fake line items like "LEGAL, CONSULTING AND ADMIN FEES" that are tax evasion schemes. Some tax-exempt foundations also put ghost employees on the payroll to skim off monies.

One of the biggest scams is tax-exempt donations to similar tax-exempt organizations (these are nothing more than insider deals to skim off money---the donee takes a cut of the "donation" and launders the rest in an offshore bank for the donor's later use).

REFERENCE The Bernard & Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust Inc.
(Formerly:The Bernard & Anne Spitzer Foundation Inc.
730 5th Ave----Suite 2202, New York, NY 10019-4105
Board members: Bernard and Ann Spitzer,
Eliot Spitzer, Dr Daniel Spitzer (brother)

[Vision]

This story has a whole new meaning. Drug test Spitzer.