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IPFS News Link • TAXES: State

re: "Blue Privilege" Protects the Killer of Eric Garner

• Lew Rockwell blog

Eric Garner, father of six, was simply standing on a sidewalk selling individual cigarettes to pedestrians.  The local merchants, who sell cigarettes by the pack and therefore must charge New York state's exhorbitant cigarette tax, complained to the authorities about this "unfair competition."  The government sent six  heavily armed tax collection enforcers . . . er, I mean, police officers . . . to accost Mr. Garner.  They took him down and murdered him....


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