Posted on 11/05/2013 7:02:25 PM PST by ican'tbelieveit
Colorado election results. Amendment 66 is trying to change taxation laws in CO, a lot of out of state money poured into the campaign for raising taxes (Bloomberg, Gates).
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| Amendment 66 (Raise Taxes in CO, changing State Constitution) | Yes/For | 34.76% | 185,787 | |
| No/Against | 65.24% | 348,716 |
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| Proposition AA (Tax Marijuana at 15% excise and 10% retail) | Yes/For | 65.18% | 345,008 | |
| No/Against | 34.82% | 184,295 |
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“I don’t understand why people are voting for the pot tax. A tax is a tax. The gov’t will just waste more $$$”
I agree. I obviously voted against the billion dollar tax increase for “education”, the biggest tax increase in the history of the state.
At first, I was gonna vote for the pot tax, but then realized, that yes, a tax is a tax is a tax, and I’m pretty much opposed to ALL NEW and/or INCREASED taxes, so based on principal, I did in fact vote against the pot tax too, even though I was opposed to legalization in the first place.
The Equally important Douglas County School Board race was swept by the conservative slate!
The Union spent a LOT of money trying to get back in, and failed.
That was my thinking in my two no votes. No, I do not want to give the government more money, more power.
66% of voters disagree with you.
They’ve learned that legalization doesn’t take the crime out of the drug trade.
They don’t want the shops in their neighborhood either.
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| Amendment 66 (Raise Taxes in CO, changing State Constitution) |
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The pot tax should be about 500%
didn’t libertards try to sell the crappy legalize it so we can get revenue from it??
Of course the libertards now oppose taxing it.
lol
Libertopians can never be trusted
How naive can you be?
The cartel’s have illegals running slave labor harvesting their crops in the forests, under threat of death to their families.
Do you really believe the pot shops aren’t having to pay for mob “protection”?
Yes, the politicians pushed legalization so they could tax it.
Now it will go back underground and they’ll see little tax money and the Cartels and dealers will make big bucks.
That you have doesn't impress me.
A lot of people grow their own.
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I am not worried about it going too underground. There is enough “pot” tourism to keep it in the open.
The cartels aren’t making LESS money.
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You’re correct.
And the union busting members of the school board in Douglas county are winning over the very well financed union puppets! Bloomberg appears to have wasted his $ trying to interfere in a local school board election. It is a defeat for national union dollars poured into the race as well.....
I got a lot of emails from Tanc about the “billion dollar tax”. He was on it.
“Do you really believe the pot shops aren’t having to pay for mob “protection”?”
Actually, I know a few pot shop owners. One thing legalizing has done is it has removed the criminal element. Pot has become a very branded product now. It isn’t just pot, there are numerous named products. Besides smoking pot there are drops, coffee supplements, gum, etc. Again, hundreds of products the criminal element does not control. These shop and product owners value their license and are paranoid (no joke intended) about doing anything illegal.
We tried prohibition with booze. Didn’t work. Things got worse. Same with pot. As studies have shown, as many people smoke pot now as before the crackdown on pot, yet, many lives have been ruined with jail, police bashing in doors, murders, crime, etc. It isn’t working. Time to try something else.
I want to know how they are going to collect a tax on illegal contraband sold on the black market by people breaking the law. The pot shops are only a tiny fraction of the pot consumed.
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