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Can legalizing pot ease our national debt?
Small Government Times ^
| 2013-10-20
| Steve Adcock
Posted on 10/30/2013 3:38:46 PM PDT by sdnet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
All of those things are man made. Cannabis is a genus of flowering plants.
To: sdnet
It’s easier for most folks to grow good weed than to distill Jack Daniels quality whisky. Gov’t shouldn’t confuse leagalizing marijuana with getting rich off it.
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posted on
10/30/2013 4:31:31 PM PDT
by
umgud
(2A can't survive dem majorities)
To: sdnet
No. Slavery increases the national debt.
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posted on
10/30/2013 4:32:43 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: sdnet
I hear those large Labrador buds are pretty potent.
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posted on
10/30/2013 4:32:56 PM PDT
by
dainbramaged
(Joe McCarthy was right.)
To: sdnet
Will it ease our national debt? Not as long as the welfare state remains in its present form.
IMHO, pot smokers, and I know a few, tend to be stupider, lazier, fatter, and more likely to be unemployed, addicted to cigarettes and other drugs, have unstable homes, and be more involved in crime than other adults. In America of today, that’s hitting the motherload for government expenditure.
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posted on
10/30/2013 4:43:30 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: sdnet
They still don’t get it. No new taxing mechanism is enough to feed the humongous spending appetite of the political elite.
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posted on
10/30/2013 4:44:38 PM PDT
by
lormand
(Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
To: sdnet
LOL hardly.More money to waste and new laws to pay for.
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posted on
10/30/2013 4:46:51 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Fai Mao
There will be no pusher to sell to kids cause they will sell pot like they sell whiskey. It’s a simple concept.
Are there streetcorner bootleggers now?
To: SoothingDave
Do you realize that the most smuggled drug in America is tobacco?
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posted on
10/30/2013 4:49:57 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: sdnet
Here in Washington state the investors are clawing over themselves to get into the business.
Believe whatever you like, but we are going to make money on this crop. Yes we are.
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posted on
10/30/2013 4:51:45 PM PDT
by
MarMema
("If Americans really wanted Obamacare, you wouldn't need a law to make them buy it." Ted Cruz)
To: cripplecreek
No kidding? I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. The tax is astounding.
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posted on
10/30/2013 4:52:14 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: trisham
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posted on
10/30/2013 4:56:53 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: cripplecreek
Smuggled from state to state, no?
The point is that illegal sales are minuscule compared to legit ones. If pot is legalized and sold in the liquor stores, that is where the vast majority of sales will come from.
Of course if taxes are too high, bootlegging is increased. But you need to use some perspective. I am sure i could find some moonshine if i really wanted to. But there is no reason for the average, generally lawful person to choose that path.
To: sdnet
Pot will get you through times of no money
better than money will get you through times of no pot.
That's a fact, Jack!
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posted on
10/30/2013 5:01:32 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
10/30/2013 5:01:39 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: trisham
Gotta love this line from the last paragraph.
"Smuggling does exist, but are we going to give up a really great tax over the fact that a few will slip through the cracks?"
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posted on
10/30/2013 5:04:25 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
10/30/2013 5:10:18 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: sdnet
nope, they’d just spend that much more.
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posted on
10/30/2013 5:10:29 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: sdnet
Wonder how the liquor industry helped.
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posted on
10/30/2013 5:10:55 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: Finny
"...I say let's outlaw the Federal government 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 pre-pubescent pederasts among us.
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posted on
10/30/2013 5:12:43 PM PDT
by
Does so
(Soon, we'll be looking like Detroit.)
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