04-15-2005, 05:25 PM
jahcs,Apr 15 2005, 11:44 AM Wrote:Also, what makes you think dealers will pay very much in taxes, if any for their drug trade? They are willing to duck the law now, why should they change?
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I think the 'dealers' are there for the supra-normal profits they achieve now. That is why they are willing to duck the law. If the trade is legal, there is considerably less profit in it. They would face competition from those for whom the diminished risk would offset the tax cost of doing business.
What happened to the rum-runners after Prohibition?
And you may call it righteousness
When civility survives,
But I've had dinner with the Devil and
I know nice from right.
From Dinner with the Devil, by Big Rude Jake
When civility survives,
But I've had dinner with the Devil and
I know nice from right.
From Dinner with the Devil, by Big Rude Jake