Posted on 04/20/2007 5:56:08 AM PDT by tang0r
Jeffery A. Miron finds that by decriminalizing cannabis, the federal government would generate $2.4 billion in federal tax revenue annually, and that an additional $7.7 billion would be saved as the cost of incarceration, policing, and processing offenders. Now, that's too much money to for the human brain to fully conceptualize, given the air quality around April 20th, so your friends at the Prometheus Institute have provided this handy quantitive index in order show exactly how much the U.S. can earn each year from cannabis decriminalization. The math: $2.4 billion per year + $7.7 billion per year = $10.1 billion gained in total per year. You're welcome.
The $10.1 billion dollars could, for those who are interested, do any of the following:
• Subsidize a school voucher system for half of the U.S., for good reason • Build three nuclear reactors, because Greenpeace will be high and won't notice • Extend health insurance to one million uninsured Americans, and doesn't that make everyone happy? • Purchase eight Stealth Bombers, or 2 Minitz class aircraft carriers, because we can
(Excerpt) Read more at prometheusinstitute.net ...
Not even a $1 is downside cost? I'm doubting the seriousness of this analysis...
Sometimes I wonder what I could have been had I not ‘wasted’ so much of my life tokin’, then swallowing, then dropping, and finally snortin’.
I might not have made the decision to go blow off college.
Are those fully equipped carriers?
Unfortunately, what you were doing was illegal - so it forced you to have to be around some less than desirable people. They had a profit motive to get you hooked on harder stuff - & so it began.
It’s like:
Guns don’t kill people - people kill people.
Pot doesn’t make you lazy - laziness makes you lazy.
Nope. Everyone will run right out and get stoned. Except for the ones that are too drunk.
No, they are the new Mini-tz Class carriers..............
Or too full of Xanax, or Prozac, or Paxil, or Zoloft, or...
uhh got a light, there, Promy?
More money well wasted by the government.
I agree that pot should at least be decriminalized. But that kind of tax money from it is a pipe dream. It’s a weed, it can be grown almost anywhere.
Will anyone be working a full brain capacity?......They don’t now!........
uhh got a light, there, Promy?
Marijuana is not illegal just because we want to have a reason to arrest someone. It is illegal because it is harmful and dangerous to use.
Anyone calling for the legalization of marijuana is an idiot.
“Jeffery A. Miron finds that by decriminalizing cannabis, the federal government would generate $2.4 billion in federal tax revenue annually,”
Why the hell would anyone pay high taxes on something they could legally grow at their from door step, especially when they’re too stoned to get a good job? More crappy work like this kind of “dopey” study is more likely what we could expect from decriminalization
you obviously know nothing about MJ. it is not addictive therefore no rehab. Increased crime comes with the other drugs like alcohol, NOT MJ. stop getting your MJ updates from the gov’t, they will lie to you.
Anyone who thinks it is more harmful than alcohol is an even bigger idiot.
-ccm
If we legalize murder, legalize rape, legalize assault, etc., and tax them by eliminating all laws, we can eliminate income taxes, too.
/sarc
Does this nation really need another vice?
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