Agreed. Too much government and too many laws.
Ive been saying it since it happened. I even wrote to my state senator about it because the legislature was raising penalties for selling Loosies in Michigan.
Oh I don’t know. The cigarette taxes are ridiculous and I remember being able to buy “loosies” in stores years ago (only in the ghetto though, that was not a thing in middle or upper class areas), but this really seems a stretch.
There’s plenty of petty crimes the guy could have been committing that would have attracted police attention and it would have ended in the same sad way.
Don’t resist arrest, ESPECIALLY if you are just doing a bs “crime”.
Rand Paul Is Right about Eric Garner: NY cigarette taxes are partly to blame for his death.
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Rand Paul is not right. He’s wrong.
Blaming cigarette taxes for Garner’s death is like blaming jaywalking laws for Brown’s death.
Taxes made him morbidly obese? I don’t get it.
“The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
“Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.”
~ Ayn Rand
The protestors want a boogeyman, look at government greed.
It’s disgusting how well this kind of ploy works for Liberals. Blame anything or anyone except their icon. Morbidly obese, confirmed criminal Garner shouldn’t have been blatantly breaking even a minor law. Garner didn’t die because of taxes. He died because he was in ill health and because he refused to be handcuffed after being discovered breaking the law. These were all his own decisions.
Yep.
Democrats pass stupid nanny state laws/taxes.
Democrats protect bad cops with unions.
Victims of bad Democrat laws and Democrat cops need to stop voting for Democrats.
The Taxman killed Eric Garner
Nonsense, this wasn’t a special arrest method taught to cops to use if the arrest is cigarette based.