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To: Vermont Lt
" They will be crying to increase the tax in two or three years."

That's exactly what will happen. But unlike tobacco or alcohol, marijuana can be easily grown at home and that's exactly what people will do. The tax revenue will plunge.

The state will not have the option of making the tax as onerous as they have done with cigarettes.
87 posted on 05/29/2016 9:50:45 PM PDT by KamperKen
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To: KamperKen

“.....marijuana can be easily grown at home and that’s exactly what people will do.”

THAT is exactly correct! Right now, while it’s being ‘legalized’ and regulated, there is an increase in tax revenue. Once people realize how easy it is to grow in their backyard or in a pot on a windowsill, what motivation will there be to go out and buy it? Sure, some people will, but most likely the majority will just grow their own. At that point what will the government do? Tax people’s personal crop? I doubt people will agree to allow ‘pot taxation and revenue agents’ into their home on a mass scale. So the end result will most likely be a small revenue stream but more stoners since it’s now legal. That’s exactly what Soros and the One World Government people want: a pacified work force that just goes along with the wonderful New World Order.


96 posted on 05/30/2016 7:03:17 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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