# I am drug dealer, I pay taxes!

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**Created:** [January 23, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-am-drug-dealer-i-pay-taxes/42315 "2008-01-23T13:52:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 1:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-am-drug-dealer-i-pay-taxes/42315/7 "2008-01-23T13:58:40Z")

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I take it back, it’s not satire, he really did put this in his proposed budget. :picard:

> **[Spitzer Plans Cuts and Fees to Close Deficit of $4.4 Billion (Published 2008)](https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/nyregion/23albany.html)**
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> Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York proposed an array of taxes and fees and almost $1 billion in health care cuts, and scaled back plans for new education aid and property tax relief.

[http://www.nysun.com/article/70026](http://www.nysun.com/article/70026)

The NY Sun article makes a little more sense though:

> One proposal would allow the state to tax illegal drugs that are confiscated by police. Anyone caught in possession of marijuana would be taxed $3.50 a gram, and other illegal drugs would be taxed at $200 a gram. A budget official said more than 20 states have similar rules in place.

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