Posted on 09/24/2012 4:49:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
Are you a dealer or user?.
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I use only caffeine , you sound like a small minded “war oon drugs” type. What arm of LAWR Enfarcement do you belong to? Being a conservative means looking at FACTS and drawing logical conclusions. You should try it sometime.
And what stops the government from stealing the school money from the pot tax?
Lottery money in Colorado goes to outdoor projects. Orginigally it went to outdoor projects, secondary education and prisons. Years ago an environmentalist group put an issue on the ballot that restricted use to outdoor stuff and it passed. So now we have gold plated bike paths but the public universities in the state are scraping for every penny. And before you say that education has plenty of money, that’s not true with higher ed in CO. K-12 has enjoyed a run of increases (thanks to another ballot issue) but our higher ed institutions are almost at the point of not being public any more.
I hope you wrote this as sarcasm.
What pot tax?
No, this is not 'as a society'. It is the state of Colorado exercising its proper authority under the Tenth Amendment to make such decisions.
Do you support CO's authority to make the decision that is under discussion?
Suppose Amendment 64 passes. Which do you support - Obama and the feds, or CO and the Tenth Amendment?
I don’t care what dopes in CO do to their state, my comment was that instead of finding new and more creative ways to prop-up failing schools by raising funds from gambling (lottery) and pot, give vouchers. And yes, it is a decision as a society to fund education with revenue from pot.
“war on drugs”
Yes be very careful.
Indeed the younger the greater the sales.
Fair enough. It sounds like your position is to honor the Tenth Amendment
And yes, it is a decision as a society to fund education with revenue from pot.
No it's not. It's a decision by the state of CO under the CO Constitution and the Tenth Amendment.
“allow people to use it in less harmful (less efficient) ways”
I can’t think of one logical reason why one would use anything mind altering.
“Are you a dealer or user?”
If they are low on money, it's because they've spread it around like it was fairy dust. Mesa state- now Colorado Mesa University- has built 10 new dorms that look more like high-dollar resort hotels, then jacked up student fees to pay for them.
Tuition used to be about $1500/semester now it's 3500 and goes up every year.They continuously build gold-plated parking garages, underground soccer fields, pools, new buildings, ice rinks and you name it, the construction never stops.
They don't give a crap about how much tuition goes up to fund it all, they just tell the kids to get student loans. They give $100,000 of dollars to local groups- $100,000 donation to a local ice rink group !!!!
They have forgotten their mission- to provide a low cost college education, and now think they are some sort of gift to the community- a community- where the average per capita income is $18,000.00.
Screw them and their whining.They've priced thousands of local young people, including my own kids, out of a college education chasing their delusions of granduer and I look forward to the day the college bubble collapses.
It kind of makes sense - smoke an illegal drug and build little junior state prisons with the proceeds...
Legislation is a reflection of the desires of society they represent. The people that elect those who pass laws constitute “society”.. but maybe after I take a few drags, I’ll come up with a better answer.
I can’t think of one logical reason why one would use anything mind altering.
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You don’t listen to soothing music or have a glass of wine on occasion?
No don’t need it.
The Feds will win, regardless of who I support.
I kinda like those kind of taxes, as long they can’t buy tickets with EBTs...
Go Mavericks!
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