Posted on 10/30/2013 3:38:46 PM PDT by sdnet
By your logic there should be booze and cigarette dealers on every corner.
In many cities there are.
My son is writing an essay on this topic. He’s taking the sife of legalizing it. Gonna send his this article.
He’s funny. We live in California, and he is going to college at Texas A&M. He didn’t want to write a pro-gun essay because he feels like it’s too sterotypical Texan.
He picks pro-legalizing pot which I point out is very appropriate for the kid from California.
Why do you think Prohibition was lifted?
Revenue.
Your logic doesn’t follow.
LOL! :)
I agree, as it is really a tenth amendment issue. Let them tax away, I don't really care about that. In fact, cigarette taxes now are the most regressive taxes out there, so they are practically the only way the poor pay any taxes at all. Pot will be the same way. Might as well get something out of it, rather than always coming back to the middle class.
By your logic there should be booze and cigarette dealers on every corner.
People trade food stamps for booze and cigs. Same thing.
Think it over.
I see how you tax the rest, but how do you tax polygamy?
“Legalizing a plant that existed just fine (until the federal government decided it was a problem) would eliminate the need for many thousands of government agents standing at the ready to knock your door down and shoot your family dog.
We can’t afford to lay off these terribly important public servants. Plus, without the illegal drug trade the government will have a much tougher time seizing people’s property like houses and cars.”
Concur. I don’t do drugs and hate druggies, but I’ve been held at gunpoint and dragged out of my own truck on my own ranch by drug warriors who “made a mistake.”
In contrast, druggies have never personally harmed me.
Inheritance, marriage, sales, and many more taxes apply to marriage. If you have four wives rather than one, I GUARANTEE you they’ll find a way to tax it all!
The people have been conditioned to accept militarized law enforcement. Just look at any LEO related thread on FR and you will find some “conservative” willing to lick a jack boot. If drugs are made legal they will simply start using the shock troops for things like code enforcement.
Blaming drugs for drug addiction is like blaming guns for shootings or cars for accidents, and leads to the same kind of destructive, tyrannical "regulate it with government!" mentality.
I say let's outlaw the Federal governmment from interfering with moral/religious choices ranging from charity (welfare), to booze and health habits, to how we passively, peacefully deal with the openly homosexual among us.
As long as man draws breath, there will be temptations and excess, prostitution, gambling, homosexuality, and all the rest. Individuals can only ever go about the business of making choices within the human condition, where morality determines destiny.
Government has intruded such that it has outlawed certain morality, such as practicing the Christian ethic of peacefully living and let live while shunning -- not outlawing, but shunning -- behaviors and choices that the Christian ethic rejects, such as homosexuality, sloth, envy, vengeance, avarice, SLAVERY.
You know why Western Civilization (as opposed to the East, including Islam, where it's legal to take a 9-year-old girl as a "wife") is slave-free? Because many centuries of quietly living and pursuing the Christian ethic made it happen. The founders took the principles, honor and righteousness of "a good Christian" pretty seriously. "Being a good Christian" ultimately made the West slave free. America is a Christian nation, whether Obama agrees or not.
The Founders were Christians, and they didn't outlaw alchohol or gambling or any of those things. They knew that a moral people would deal with it better than government.
Libertarians approve of flooding government coffers with additional billions of tax dollars?
Proves they are Libertine, not small government.
Spending won’t decrease. If we’re lucky, relatively few people additional people will live on the dole while smoking themselves into oblivion.
It's stunning how many folks actually still believe "Reefer Madness"!
Legalize for whom? 12 year old kids? Cigarettes are not legal for minors neither is alcohol. Yet look at the average age drug users start. Does anyone really think the local pusher is going to suddenly become a legitimate business man? No the pusher will just sell to younger kids who will become legal users when they reach 16 or 18 or 21. That is actually my problem with legalization. The dynamics of the problem on society are different than tobacco.
Look at the way liberals complain about the advertising from tobacco companies? Why do dopers think that the CEO of Phillip-Morris is less ethical than the head of a drug-cartel? Why do dopers think think legalization would mean they are left alone to get high?
Dopers have never appeared to me to be the brightest bulbs in the lamp and I don’t think they realize that legalization would suddenly convert them from an oppressed minority to people that need a progressive life style coach (parole officer) supplied by the health police.
And what kind of tyrannical nightmare would we be living in now if Prohibition was still in place?
although I believe pot should be legal, the idea that a runaway government will handle any tax revenue properly is rediculous..the blow everything they get, on crap no one wants and slip it in their pockets in the end..
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