Posted on 06/20/2014 10:02:46 AM PDT by tflabo
As the entire nation sits back and watches the legalization situation in Colorado, millions of dollars of tax revenue generated by recreational marijuana sales continue to roll in to the state. From the single month of January 2014, the city of Denver is expected to receive 3.5 million in tax money generated from recreational and medicinal marijuana sales that will not be wasted.
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Taxes on drugs will not raise enough money to pay the costs of enforcement on drug impaired enforcement.
If they really want to raise more money, they need to add an excise tax on Doritos.
Oh I am sure he does. And those plans involve channeling it to more bureacracy and make-work projects for his cronies. It will ultimately get pissed away like all other tax revenue.
Yeah, and the lottery money was supposed to save the schools.
She was waisted.
They’ll set up some new program that will be sorely underfunded in a couple of years.
Just wait until the lieberals in state govt. tax the hades out of pot sales much like cigarettes. Then a black market will arise and circumvent the tax collectors—I read where the majority of ciggie sales in NY are illegal and underground. Like Reagan said, “Whatever you tax more you get less of it”. Have fun leftist potheads—hypocrites.
What enforcement? Being impaired by anything - drugs, alcohol, lack of sleep - is not in and of itself against the law.
Liberals always talk about how they need to raise more money, but I never hear them even concede the idea that managing the public money is a “SACRED DUTY” and that they need to make sure that “None of this sacred money they manage be abused or wasted”....
I would think that someone in the tea party runnign as a Democrat could easily get elected inteh bluest of disrticts by running on a platform of “Managing the tax money that is raised fromthe public is a sacred duty and I will do my best to make sure it is not wastefully spent”....
Because while you cannot argue about the whole spending of other people’s money one might make inroads concering spending it wastefully...
It doesn't have to arise it was already in place.
Spot on.
Pot Prohibition is dead...10 years tops and it’ll be buried. You’ll get over it. Or not.
If such a thing is necessary, was it not necessary even before legalization? It’s not like there weren’t plenty of people driving while stoned before legalization.
Blood tests for drugs is not cheap and drug/alcohol checkpoints are not free either. Impaired is a legal term related to the amount of alcohol or drugs in your blood.
A person stoned will still have to be checked to see if the drug levels are low enough to let them go.
These will cost millions per month?!? Go on, pull the other one.
If more people are stoned, I would imagine crime would go down. They’ll be home on the couch eating doritos.
Hopefully America will burn to the ground before it ever succumbs to that level of degeneracy.
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