When Legal Isn’t Legal and Unlawful Is Quite Alright

Rocky Mountain High . . .not just for singing anymore. This week Denver voters voiced their approval to christen Denver as the first major city to legalize small/personal amounts of marijuana (up to an ounce), without a penalty . You remember marijuana right – it’s an illegal plant, whose leafs are illegally grown, illegally picked, illegally dried, illegally rolled into smoking papers and illegally smoked by happy consumers (yes, despite Denver’s most fervent wishes, marijuana is presently a controlled substance — illegal in all 50 states and under federal law).

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The Supreme Court has ratified and sanctioned the ever-expanding Stealth Cartel partnerships between Big Business and their comrades in collusion, States’ Government.

The Court’s recent ruling in Kelo et. Al. v. City of New London et. Al., affirmed for the first time, a state or local government’s authority to seize its’ citizens’ non-blighted private property, for the express purpose — not of building a new bridge or wider road, but rather, to give that private property to another private citizen – albeit in most cases a Large Corporation or Real Estate Development Partnership with whom the State has decided to enter into business; all under the guise of “eminent domain” and to “boost the local economy”. Continue Reading »

In a 5 to 4 decision, the Supreme Court, has just brightened the glassy eyed smile of wine aficionados and everyone else who enjoys a nice Merlot, by striking down what had been the ongoing attempts of several state governments to interfere with and prohibit their Citizen Consumers from purchasing their favorite out-of-state wine via the internet or otherwise. Continue Reading »

The citizens of Michigan who reside in the urban sprawl of Detroit are waking up to the brave new world of Stealth Cartel partnerships between their elected officials, and their government’s comrades in collusion, Big Business. For this and other related articles – visit the StatesOnTheTake.com Law and Business Library.

This time, the Stealth Cartel is the first ever (but by no means last) proposed tax on “fast food” for the city of Detroit. The city’s mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, citing the city’s extreme financial situation, has asked voters to approve a 2% tax on “fast food” restaurants only – on top of the already 6% state sales tax on all restaurant meals. Continue Reading »