Posted on 03/13/2015 12:48:14 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
No, but it’s a step.
No it isn’t, it is a costly diversion from the problem, just another argument by people pretending to care, but who actually are fixated on legalizing drugs.
If we legalized loosies, we’d have one less violation and we’d be encouraging voluntary transactions. Legalizing them would hurt nobody.
If loosies were legal, then the police wouldn’t have stopped Garner.
Why do you want to protect Big Government revenuers and Big Tobacco?
He is an asshole.
Garner was not killed because NYC makes it illegal to sell individual cigarettes, or because he was violating probation, or for unpaid tickets, or because he was jay walking, or for urinating in public, he died because of a policing problem that needs to be fixed.
To put it simply, "It's the government, stupid." As Reagan said, the government can't solve our problem. The government IS the problem.
While, I am with him on lots and lots of issues, (and frankly I don't see anything he is saying here as completely false) I find that reverse racism, the soft bigotry of low expectations and lawlessness in minority communities to be a huge problem. I guess he is planning on ignoring this problem for now.
He is obviously and openly pandering to the black vote here. Whether that is a good idea or a bad idea, I don't know. Democrats were able to capture vast swaths of the south on the advocacy of segregation. While it wasn't totally against their ideology, it didn't really completely jive with the rest of their platform. Never the less, by throwing that bone out there to the one issue racists in the south, they took over state after state. If he can take the basic premise of "The problem IS the government" and apply it to the one issue black community, I applaud him. It might just work.
I just hope he doesn't have to abandon any principals in order to do it.
I've never said “let’s legalize pot so we can tax it” - but I don't know how many of those who do say that intend the tax to discourage use.
If you say we should tax pot like cigarettes, you’re saying we should tax it to discourage use.
Thankyou for your list!
My pleasure!
If you say we should tax pot like cigarettes
I've never said that either.
A lot of others have.
Mar 12, 2015
Colorado's retail marijuana sales-tax receipts increased 153 percent in January, totaling more than $3.5 million, compared with $1.4 million in January 2014, the first month that recreational marijuana was legal.
The statistics are included in the most recent report from the Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division. The $3.5 million came from a 10 percent sales tax applied to recreational marijuana.
http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/blog/morning-edition/2015/03/colorados-marijuana-sales-tax-revenue-soared-in.html
but we must never let the animals run the cities by their violence....
Gentle giant was robbing a store, assaulting the owner, and then questioned, attacked a cop....that can not be ignored...
So far. Very early yet.
California collects $100M a year in taxes from its medical marijuana program. It was voted into law in 1996.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Liberarians love their drugs it seems.
IS this guy starting to be MORE like his nut dad every day?
I like many of his ideas, but does he really think blacks are “more restricted” by laws and regs than we whites?
And “overly strict sentencing”? Are you kidding? Sentences are not strict ENOUGH, that is why we have soooo much trouble! Give me a break!
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