Comments on: Michigan chases online smokers http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3941 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:51:28 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3941/comment-page-1#comment-10122 Reader's Write Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:31:14 +0000 #comment-10122 "interest and penalties up to $200 per carton" ? Have these guys been hanging around with the RIAA? Why is it when some white collar criminal steals ten million dollars and gets caught their fine is $500,000 but when some poor slob cheats on their cigarette tax the fine is 10 times what the tax would have been? Could it be that rich people control how laws are written and enforced? Gee, I wonder.... “interest and penalties up to $200 per carton” ? Have these guys been hanging around with the RIAA? Why is it when some white collar criminal steals ten million dollars and gets caught their fine is $500,000 but when some poor slob cheats on their cigarette tax the fine is 10 times what the tax would have been? Could it be that rich people control how laws are written and enforced? Gee, I wonder….

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3941/comment-page-1#comment-10120 Reader's Write Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:26:06 +0000 #comment-10120 Come on, people, you have to make your choice. Do you want the give cartels more power to extort money from you? If you do, keep voting Republican. If you want state and federal governments to have more power over you, then you will need to vote Democrat. These are your choices, or so you are told and seem to believe. Some of us, however, prefer to live our lives in freedom and not be extorted by either of these two. Those of us who want to be free don't vote the "lessor of two evils." We pick from political parties that have not been corrupted as much as the two mainstream parties. Two of these parties are the Libertarians http://www.lp.org and the Constitutionalist http://www.constitutionparty.com Come on, people, you have to make your choice. Do you want the give cartels more power to extort money from you? If you do, keep voting Republican. If you want state and federal governments to have more power over you, then you will need to vote Democrat. These are your choices, or so you are told and seem to believe. Some of us, however, prefer to live our lives in freedom and not be extorted by either of these two.

Those of us who want to be free don’t vote the “lessor of two evils.” We pick from political parties that have not been corrupted as much as the two mainstream parties. Two of these parties are the Libertarians http://www.lp.org and the Constitutionalist http://www.constitutionparty.com

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