Posted by
malize on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 4:40:22 PM
This was brought to my attention...and apparently the void between this Democrat legislators ears is without end.
POL CALLS CRACK TAX RAW 'DEAL'
By KENNETH LOVETT
February 12, 2008 -- ALBANY - A prominent Democratic Queens assemblyman yesterday warned that Gov. Spitzer's proposed tax on illegal drugs - dubbed the "crack tax" by critics - could unfairly impact the drug dealers themselves.
Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry told Spitzer Tax Commissioner Robert Megna
during a legislative budget hearing that requiring drug users and
dealers to pay state sales tax on their illegal stash is an undue
burden since they already face fines and possible forfeiture of
property and money.
"This component adds another financial hardship on people who don't have a lot of money," Aubry said.
Aubry, chairman of the Assembly Corrections Committee, added that the
plan could "create another class of individual who can't escape the
process and has to go back out and sell drugs."
Said Megna, "It is not our intent to burden certain portions of the population."