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The Politics of Prohibition - Reason.com What happened in 1930 that suddenly gave the repeal movement political muscle? The answer is the Great Depression and the ravages that it inflicted on federal income-tax revenues. From 1930 to 1931, income-tax revenues fell by 15 percent. In 1932 they fell another 37 percent; 1932 income-tax revenues were 46 percent lower than just two years earlier. And by 1933 they were fully 60 percent lower than in 1930. With no end of the Depression in sight, Washington got anxious for a substitute source of revenue......
It should be decriminalized, but its a shame the state is profiting after persecuting so many for so many years for doing the same thing.
Governments dont need anymore money and they sure dont need to be regulating plants or what we put in our bodies.
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Nice. If they were smart about it, it could be much more.
You say it like its a good thing that the people are $4.7 million poorer for it.
Nice. If they were smart about it, it could be much more.
Agreed, the state legislature put a 25% tax on it, and wonder why the black market is going so strong and their projections are higher than actual amount they have collected. The got greedy and it is hurting their revenue.
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Every dollar that the government collects is one dollar of freedom the citizens lost.
Tax revenues aren't freedom. They are slavery.
While I normally fully agree that any tax is bad, if it takes taxes on marijuana to take it out of drug cartel hands and put it in normal business owners hands than I am okay with it. Although the state should have been smarter and kept the tax around 10% like many experts were telling them.
Just think what they could do with Cocaine if that's the measure. The cartel will just push black market with no tax; you kidding.Which do you think you local stoners are going to buy?
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Just think what they could do with Cocaine if that's the measure. The cartel will just push black market with no tax; you kidding.Which do you think you local stoners are going to buy?
Skunk weed or something decent? Weed with 1000 times the pesticides and maybe laced with something to make you go insane? I'm sure they will choose the cheapest one, naturally. Then they will all die and leave only those who chose the safer option. Actually, I have no idea, since I don't smoke pot.
Who buys regulation booze anymore? You can just buy some 'shine or make it yourself. Right?
No one buys that crap in a store. The cartels will just be running booze.
They have been smoking it for decades by choice. I do admit its a stupid thing to do;either without proven medical benefit like any drug.
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