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The higher the taxes and the more extreme the regulations on a good or service – the more Organised Crime is HELPED.
Ordinary sellers are made less and less attractive – and vicious criminal gangs (who, of course, ignore the taxes and regulations) gain more and more control.
The above (which David Davis points to in his post) is so obvious that is hard (very hard) to believe the “liberal” elite do not know it.
Per reports, various jihadist groups have gone into cigarette-hijacking in a big, big way here. About manufacture, I don’t know, but why the heck not? (And if the jihadists haven’t gone that route, I’m sure it has occurred to NGO’s like M-13.)
In Colombia paramilitaries even profited from the emerald trade – because the government tried to monopolise it.
When the government no longer tried to ban private emerald mines and trading – the paramilitaries (in spite of all their savage violence) lost out.
I think that answers Bill O’Reilly (and other good, but misguided, people) who claim that if other things were no longer banned organised crime would still keep control of them.
Whatever their intentions (and sometimes the intentions are entirely sincere and well meaning) – in practice, government is the biggest friend of organised crime gangs.
The higher the taxes and the more extreme the regulations on a good or service – the more Organised Crime is HELPED.
Ordinary sellers are made less and less attractive – and vicious criminal gangs (who, of course, ignore the taxes and regulations) gain more and more control.
The above (which David Davis points to in his post) is so obvious that is hard (very hard) to believe the “liberal” elite do not know it.
Per reports, various jihadist groups have gone into cigarette-hijacking in a big, big way here. About manufacture, I don’t know, but why the heck not? (And if the jihadists haven’t gone that route, I’m sure it has occurred to NGO’s like M-13.)
In Colombia paramilitaries even profited from the emerald trade – because the government tried to monopolise it.
When the government no longer tried to ban private emerald mines and trading – the paramilitaries (in spite of all their savage violence) lost out.
I think that answers Bill O’Reilly (and other good, but misguided, people) who claim that if other things were no longer banned organised crime would still keep control of them.
Whatever their intentions (and sometimes the intentions are entirely sincere and well meaning) – in practice, government is the biggest friend of organised crime gangs.