Steve Schmidt

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Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES

was selling loose cigarettes, out of packs without Tax Stamps. NYPD officers approached Garner and enforced the law. Garner was suffocated to death. What is the reality of the events that brought police officers into enforcement contact with a man selling loose cigarettes in — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 15, 2021 Deleted after 5 months

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Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES

I’m all for cigarette taxes and believe as a general proposition that the more you tax something, the less you get of it. Yet, cigarette taxes aren’t a panacea and can have terrible consequences as laws are enforced on the streets of America. Eric Garner was killed because he — PolitiTweet.org

It's politics. Gas taxes are unpopular, affects everyone. Cigarette taxes are popular, affects only smokers. I woul… https://t.co/Rf8FkhrkVN

Posted Sept. 15, 2021 Deleted after 5 months

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21st Century America. Black markets are created when products are scarce, prohibited or excessively taxed. All drive organized crime activity. When government takes actions that will drive smuggling and black market activity it is worth a minute to think about the Eric Garners — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 15, 2021 Deleted after 5 months