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NY POST - 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."
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02122008/news/regionalnews
/pol_calls_crack_tax_raw_deal_97200.htm
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