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Harold Burton <hal.i.bur...@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:hal.i.burton-247E66.21553403112012@news.newsguy.com: 

> In article <XnsA1008661D269Chopew...@216.196.121.131>,
>  RD Sandman <rdsandman[spamremove]@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> BeamMeUpScotty <ThenDestroyEveryth...@blackhole.nebulax.com> wrote in
>> news:50944911.1040901@blackhole.nebulax.com:
>> 
>> > 
>> >>>>> On 10/25/2012 1:11 PM, Alias wrote:
>> >>>>>> On 10/25/2012 6:47 PM, Mike Huckabee wrote:
>> >>>>>>> Legalizing Cocaine, heroine, and the like, is VERY stupid.
>> >>>>>> You are very stupid. When it was legal, it wasn't a problem.
>> >>>>>> It became illegal only to give the cops more ways to bust
>> >>>>>> blacks and Latinos. Eg., planting the drugs when they had
>> >>>>>> nothing else. 
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>> Like a tax code was used to trip up and jail Mobsters like Al 
>> >>>> Capone....
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> But that didn't work as well as legalizing alcohol to bust up
>> >>>>> all the Mobs.  It took their money away.
>> >>>>
>> > And legalizing Alcohol was cheaper than having the Mobs and the IRS
>> > do battle.
>> 
>> BTW, alcohol is still a gang activity. Booze is taken from one state
>> with low taxes to another state with higher taxes.
> 
> Cite?

Gladly:

http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/Controversies/20080227114336.html

"The smuggling of alcohol has not ended with the repeal of prohibition. 
Due to tax avoidance activities, boot-legging still exists in the United 
States. The state of Virginia has reported that it loses up to $20 
million from illegal whiskey smuggling.[3]

The Government of the United Kingdom fails to collect an estimated £900 
million in taxes due to alcohol smuggling activities.[4]

Absinthe was smuggled into the United States until it was legalized in 
2007.[5]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum-running

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=8807786

Need more?  If so, google alcohol smuggling.


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RD (The Sandman)