New York 'Crack Tax' Proposal Is Derided - washingtonpost.com

some Democrats, too, were stunned by the plan. “My initial instinct is: I don’t understand it,” said Bill Perkins, a state senator from Harlem. “Most of the dealers I’m familiar with are petty crack dealers — most of them are crackheads. They are broke, to say the least. I just don’t understand how you impose a tax” on broke crackheads,