Marijuana Legalization: Help for California Budget Woes? »
Posted By Progressive 5 months, 1 week ago in Business & FinanceAdvocates say that if state or local governments could collect a tax on even a fraction of pot sales, it would help rescue cash-strapped communities. Not surprisingly, the idea is getting traction in California
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CaptainLucid5 months, 1 week ago
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This is a tar baby for the government. What we marijuana advocates are doing is giving away something now to snare our rights. The government needs money bad. We offer them money. They get hooked on the marijuana tax revenue and once they do they can not make it illegal because it will cost them too much revenue to make it illegal. We have the prohibitionists on their back and this will be the win once we get them on the money wagon. At the same time we are cutting prisons so who are the least threatening people who will get early release? Non violent weed offenses. Squeezing them from both sides. And if the tax is like booze there will be a personal exception for small scale farmers like me who grow only for personal use which will keep the tax from being too excessive.
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