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by fjdlwlv 3284 days ago
High tobacco taxes killed Eric Garner.

Raising prices in poor countries with unaccountable Governments smells a lot like serfdom. We should give to the world's poorest before we pick their pockets.

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> High tobacco taxes killed Eric Garner.

No, thuggish police killed Eric Garner. He was just doing basic arbitrage on tobacco tax differentials.