floridays
Well-Known Member
100% correct, the state was losing tax revenue.And do you know the back story on this? New York gets taxes from legal cigarette sales. These guys on the street selling cigarettes aren't paying taxes. So the city government sent the cops out to clear them off the street. The guy wast doing anything but selling cigarettes. Might have been illegal, but he was just trying to make a living, nothing to die over. But big government needs it's revenue.