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| 644.1 | i support total legalisation of all drugs | ZENDIA::FERGUSON | Red X | Tue Dec 21 1993 12:42 | 10 |
| re <<< Note 644.0 by NETRIX::michaud "Jeff Michaud, PATHWORKS for Windows NT" >>>
-< Tax Stamps for drugs >-
> Supposedly the names of those buying the tax stamps remain
> "strictly confidential".
sure they do!
maybe this is a pre-step to legalisation of grass. just think of the taxes
the gov't could reap if all drugs were made legal!
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| 644.2 | | STUDIO::IDE | Time is generous. | Tue Dec 21 1993 14:11 | 8 |
| How do you get them? They probably haven't printed any yet . . .
I think a sheet of these stamps would be a great collectors item; a
conversation starter at the very least. I'd like to get some, but
don't want my house raided because of it. There's no such thing as
confidential in today's electronic society.
Jamie
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| 644.3 | It's a setup | MILKWY::ROBINSON | The Captain | Tue Dec 21 1993 19:39 | 3 |
| Does the word "Sting" sound familiar to anybody?
Wendell
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| 644.4 | yeah,a "sting" | CSC32::K_BOUCHARD | | Wed Dec 22 1993 20:38 | 4 |
| If this were true,*everyone* would have heard about it. I agree with
the last reply,the DEA is probably doing a "sting" and nothing more.
Ken
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| 644.5 | How do you think they convict folks for tax fraud | ZENDIA::FLEMMING | | Wed Dec 22 1993 20:58 | 6 |
| Sorry folks, its not a sting. If you sell drugs in MA, you need a tax
stamp. If you don't have one, you can be busted for tax evasion. If you
do have one, you will probably be watched and could be busted for
selling drugs. Just the sort of deal those folks set up to keep us from
profiting from either drug dealing or tax evasion.
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| 644.6 | | WIDGET::KLEIN | | Thu Dec 23 1993 01:07 | 11 |
| According to the article in the paper, it said that thus far, a total of
zero stamps have actually been sold. So if it is a sting, it isn't
working very well.
And anyway, when was the last time you had
to give your name when you bought stamps at a Post Office. (never). What
makes you think it is any different for these tax stamps?
I wonder how many of these dumb stamps they've actually printed...
-steve-
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| 644.7 | Your tax $$$ at work... | CARROL::YOUNG | where is this place in space??? | Thu Dec 23 1993 12:41 | 1 |
| Or how many people they have in an office waiting to sell them???
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| 644.8 | Used to be Federal Stamps issued | MILKWY::ED_ECK | Please Support Global Warming | Thu Dec 23 1993 19:23 | 10 |
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Up until at least the early 1970's, it was legal under federal law
(state laws were somewhat different, of course) to sell marajuana
as long as a $100 per ounce transfer tax was paid. There was a Federal
tax stamp issued to certify that the tax had been paid.
I believe it says on the front of the (Federal? State?) tax form
that all income, even from illegal undertakings, must be declared.
(Remember who busted Al Capone and why. Hint--it wasn't Elliot Ness.)
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