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Weed isn’t crack lol , alcohol is a more expensive and dangerous substance then weed is . Prostitution should not be legal I agree , for ethical reasons . Woman are still doing it tho
Actually legalized marijuana leads to the trafficking of cocaine, heroin, and crack and for criminal gangs to grow. I posted about this weeks ago and how it's effected Europe.
At some point we will have to legalize all the now illegal narcotics. It's not like keeping them illegal has done anything to stop their distribution and use.
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Actually legalized marijuana leads to the trafficking of cocaine, heroin, and crack and for criminal gangs to grow. I posted about this weeks ago and how it's effected Europe.
NYC will be die even sooner if these leftists pass these laws and get the governor to approve them.
Wall Street will leave in large mass this time as they've mostly sat home this pandemic and will move operation very easily once NASDAQ and the exchanges all move out.
Honestly, I don't think that's the answer either. The middle class can also up and leave. Has been doing just that, actually - if you have the "pleasure" of having a kid in school this year, or a tourism/restaurant-related job, you probably know why. IMO the first answer should be to cut waste. I know waste. Could tell crazy stories. I have several family members in City government and boy does it ever need a good audit. Would turn up a few million here, and a few million there, and maybe they'd find they need a lot fewer tax cuts.
Also people might put up with higher taxes if that meant they'd get something for it. This year though, it's pretty much taxation without representation. Unelected officials making decisions that screw up people's lives, and then demanding money to paper over their fails.
Honestly, I don't think that's the answer either. The middle class can also up and leave. Has been doing just that, actually - if you have the "pleasure" of having a kid in school this year, or a tourism/restaurant-related job, you probably know why. IMO the first answer should be to cut waste. I know waste. Could tell crazy stories. I have several family members in City government and boy does it ever need a good audit. Would turn up a few million here, and a few million there, and maybe they'd find they need a lot fewer tax cuts.
Also people might put up with higher taxes if that meant they'd get something for it. This year though, it's pretty much taxation without representation. Unelected officials making decisions that screw up people's lives, and then demanding money to paper over their fails.
They better not be counting on this to balance the budget. The very rich have many, many ways to evade taxes ...
The very rich and their sock puppets in the various legislatures are the very ones who write tax laws, filled with loopholes written in what amounts to hieroglyphics, a cryptic language that only experts (not sock puppets) understand, and passed in the wee hours of the morning on a weekend or just before a holiday.
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Okay don't tax the rich or the corporations.
Shall we up the middle class tax brackets then?
Income taxes are a relic of an industrializing economy a century ago. In the Information Age, money grows on electrons.
Nowadays, the main usefulness of income taxes is electoral propaganda (see point one above).
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At some point we will have to legalize all the now illegal narcotics. It's not like keeping them illegal has done anything to stop their distribution and use.
Actually legalized marijuana leads to the trafficking of cocaine, heroin, and crack and for criminal gangs to grow. I posted about this weeks ago and how it's effected Europe.
WElcome to 1936 thinking, and the worst movie ever made: REEFER MADNESS.
The very rich and their sock puppets in the various legislatures are the very ones who write tax laws, filled with loopholes written in what amounts to hieroglyphics, a cryptic language that only experts (not sock puppets) understand, and passed in the wee hours of the morning on a weekend or just before a holiday.
That should be in NEON in Times Square...60 feet high.
Wisest statement you will see here this week.
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