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He knew it was illegal and had been arrested on multiple occasions for doing it. If he waned to do work that was not illegal he would have done so. Without the tax there would have been no profit it in and he would have done something else. We can assume he would not have been working a regular job and if he had options take money legally I have to assume he would have done that instead. I am not a fan of the tax, it really just hurts the poor, but I don' think it fair to claim it had a role in what happened.
He knew it was illegal and had been arrested on multiple occasions for doing it. If he waned to do work that was not illegal he would have done so. Without the tax there would have been no profit it in and he would have done something else. We can assume he would not have been working a regular job and if he had options take money legally I have to assume he would have done that instead. I am not a fan of the tax, it really just hurts the poor, but I don' think it fair to claim it had a role in what happened.
It was the reason (if not the ordinance or statute) why police confronted him in the first place. That's like saying "I'm not a fan of Prohibition, but I don't think it's fair to claim it had a role in the accidental shooting during that speakeasy bust."
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Deus Vult!
"Sometimes unhinged, sometimes unfair, always entertaining"
- The Crownless
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Deus Vult!
So Eric Garner's family is getting $5.9 million dollars. How awesome is that?
- 16/07/2015 03:10:14 PM
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we need to stop giving away millions tax dollars and calling it justice
- 17/07/2015 01:14:39 AM
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Right: Enough with the free lottery giveaways already! 
- 17/07/2015 11:17:00 AM
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- 17/07/2015 11:17:00 AM
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If you want to make people millionaire because family memeber died fighting the cops
- 17/07/2015 05:34:06 PM
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Kill someone who is not threatening you and you are liable; it is pretty straightforward
- 18/07/2015 03:44:26 AM
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saying stupid things with conviction does not make them less stupid
- 18/07/2015 01:23:36 PM
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Even so
- 09/08/2015 04:16:32 AM
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so because you didn't see the video of him selling loose cigarettes you assume the police lied? *NM*
- 09/08/2015 03:18:00 PM
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Selling loose cigarettes is no crime, but unproven=/=dishonest: Proven=/=justifiable homicide either
- 10/08/2015 08:53:07 AM
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IDK, I got the impression hustle was a good thing
- 17/07/2015 12:42:07 PM
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I bitched about going Off-Topic the last time I posted on this board...
- 17/07/2015 05:22:29 PM
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Are you being ironic?
- 18/07/2015 01:14:07 PM
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No, I am being 100% serious.
- 19/07/2015 04:43:13 PM
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A murderer is not going to be murdering anyone else. THAT is the point, not punishment.
- 22/07/2015 11:23:05 AM
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Re: A murderer is not going to be murdering anyone else. THAT is the point, not punishment.
- 23/07/2015 04:44:52 AM
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This is why the Catholic Church opposes capital punishment AND abortion equally
- 10/08/2015 09:30:47 AM
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So what do you think he would have doing for money without the tax?
- 17/07/2015 05:39:33 PM
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Who cares? That's his business.
- 18/07/2015 01:16:44 PM
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why only some child molesters?
- 17/07/2015 05:40:21 PM
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All actual child molesters, not all who are convicted of such offenses.
- 18/07/2015 01:26:25 PM
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That is a problem with most sexual assualt not to mention doemstic abuse cases *NM*
- 18/07/2015 01:40:43 PM
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That is two jobs, not one; also, the government does not lobby itself.
- 17/07/2015 03:09:15 AM
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the silly "unarmed" argument
- 17/07/2015 04:57:32 AM
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All I heard was "no one 'needs' guns."
- 17/07/2015 10:59:40 AM
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See, these are tyranny, because the cops picked the fights.
- 17/07/2015 02:09:21 PM
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Cops picked their fight with Garner, too: Why is that not tyranny?
- 18/07/2015 03:33:52 AM
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Re: Cops picked their fight with Garner, too: Why is that not tyranny?
- 18/07/2015 01:59:41 PM
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OK Not an respond to what I said?
- 17/07/2015 05:29:55 PM
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Sure it was: Since the unarmed and armed have equally lethal force, guns are needless
- 18/07/2015 03:40:10 AM
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sorry I didn't realize you are using the some cops did bad things so all cops do bad things argument
- 18/07/2015 01:56:31 PM
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No one said that, but arguing "most cops do nothing wrong so no cops do anything wrong" is false too
- 09/08/2015 04:46:49 AM
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You need to be 'in name' before you can be 'in name only'
- 17/07/2015 12:57:55 PM
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There is that, but few LINOs acknowledge the name is only that
- 18/07/2015 03:33:40 AM
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My point about the cops was addressing the thing that's a problem for the rest of us.
- 18/07/2015 02:04:52 PM
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BOTH are problems for everyone; one is just more serious because systemic and promoting the other
- 09/08/2015 04:25:00 AM
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