First Colorado County Reports Pot Taxes

CBS - Denver ^ | 2/26/2014 | News Desk

[Usagi_yo]

DENVER (AP) – A southern Colorado county with two recreational marijuana stores has become the first in the state to announce tax totals from the new industry. Pueblo County finance authorities announced Monday that its two shops had about $1 million in total sales in January, producing about $56,000 in local sales taxes. ... snip ...

[Usagi_yo]

Marijuana, the new economic bubble for the rest of the decade. Look at those penny stocks -- Profit from other's misery. Get rich and turn liberal and keep other's from getting rich.

[icwhatudo]

Lets legalize prostitution too-imagine the taxes we could collect!

/S

[GeronL]

tax the hitman

[USMCPOP]

Let’s tax any kind of addiction, child porn, prostitution, whatever. Isn’t this just great for the “lawmakers”. Found money.

[Sacajaweau]

Those chicks would put their money in the mattress.

Nevermind... that's what they've been doing all along.

[elkfersupper]

Lets legalize prostitution too-imagine the taxes we could collect!

That's not a bad idea.

I never was able to understand who was the victim in that "crime".

Seems to me like almost any informal contractual arrangement; kind of like filling your grocery cart with stuff and showing up at the check-out stand / line.

[NVDave]

Why not? It’s what Nevada rural counties have done for decades.

Banning these things has never actually removed them. Bringing them under the taxing authority has a better chance to put them out of business than making them illegal. Ever notice that the IRS has a better track record of putting businesses out of business than the DEA, FBI and EPA? Yea, well, there’s a reason for that.

[dhs12345]

I remember well how eager Colorado was to get their CUT of the tobacco settlement to “cover the increased medical costs due to tobacco.”

Of course, they spent it on other things. But that for is another discussion.

Gee, I wonder if they are concerned about cancer and other medical issues from smoking pot. /sarc

Lemme guess. NO!

[dhs12345]

Hey, another thought.

Considering pot probably has most of the nasties that cigarettes have, I wonder if there will be lawsuits in the future of pot producers?

The lawyers were pretty eager to go after the tobacco companies and they made billions! Now that pot is legal and front and center, maybe there are new “opportunities” for lawyers.

Hmmmm. Inquiring minds want to know.

[DJ MacWoW]

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that
morality can be maintained without religion.
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that
national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
- George Washington

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