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Colorado voters approve big tax on recreational marijuana
CBS News ^
| November 6, 2013, 4:56 AM
| (CBS/AP)
Posted on 11/06/2013 1:27:52 PM PST by Olog-hai
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posted on
11/06/2013 1:27:52 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
11/06/2013 1:30:37 PM PST
by
ifinnegan
To: Olog-hai
The taxes are projected to bring in $70 million a year. The money will be used for school construction and regulating pot sales.
Sure it will.
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posted on
11/06/2013 1:32:46 PM PST
by
frogjerk
(We are conservatives. Not libertarians, not "fiscal conservatives", not moderates)
To: Olog-hai
Ahh the fallacy of legalization.
To: ifinnegan
sold by dopes, to dopes
heh
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posted on
11/06/2013 1:34:02 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: Olog-hai
Good luck with that. Folks will still grow their own and “share” it with friends...for a fee.
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posted on
11/06/2013 1:34:06 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Olog-hai
and the dopes didn’t know this was coming???
To: ifinnegan
How is dope sold in CO?He is told: "If you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance."
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posted on
11/06/2013 1:36:40 PM PST
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
( July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
To: Army Air Corps
If I smoked marijuana I would just grow my own and share it with no one.
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posted on
11/06/2013 1:37:56 PM PST
by
sheana
To: ifinnegan
With a 25% tax it will be sold on the black market to avoid the tax. The state of Colorado would probably collect more marijuana tax revenue if the tax rate were much lower.
To: ifinnegan
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posted on
11/06/2013 1:38:50 PM PST
by
G Larry
(Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
To: frogjerk
It’s funny, isn’t it?
Liberals look at a behavior and think that it will remain constant when they impose a tax penalty on it.
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posted on
11/06/2013 1:39:50 PM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Resolute Conservative
I’ve always said they would be better off with decriminalization.
Better to keep it under wraps and pay a small fine if caught than to pay government every time they buy. Legalization will lead to a bunch of new laws as well.
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posted on
11/06/2013 1:40:07 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Olog-hai
That’ll stop the dealers. /s
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posted on
11/06/2013 1:40:13 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Resolute Conservative
This is actually kind of funny in a morbid sort of way. What happens when the drug cartels and government revenue agents get in a firefight?
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posted on
11/06/2013 1:40:21 PM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Olog-hai
A big tax on legal marijuana?
All part of the libertarian agenda.
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posted on
11/06/2013 1:40:22 PM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
To: Olog-hai
The money will be used for school construction and regulating pot sales.
Anybody else see the irony in using money from dope sales to build schools?
Also, as taxes increase, so will black market sales. "Legalization" may end up leading to just as much illegal sales as there were before.
To: forgotten man
Even if 50% of that goes underground they will still make a killing on Tax’s...and no doubt figured so.
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posted on
11/06/2013 1:41:42 PM PST
by
caww
To: Uncle Chip
and the dopes didn't know this was coming??I'm totally anti-drug, legal, illegal, pharmaceutical. But whenever I responded on a thread somewhere about wanting to legalize marijuana, I expressed total support. Being anti-drug, I really liked that something legal would have its potency controlled, would be taxed to extinction, and there would be a serious effort to put out of business those selling, buying, and having unauthorized marijuana. Governments will get much better at that if it's costing them tax dollars.
They thought I was kidding. Is there a connection between being stoned and not following premises to logical conclusions?
(I know, I'm having a MEOW moment)
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posted on
11/06/2013 1:42:09 PM PST
by
grania
To: mmichaels1970
The money will be used for school construction and regulating pot sales.
Anybody else see the irony in using money from dope sales to build schools? Yes. Connecticut legalized Indian gaming (casinos) and a state lottery for the expressed purpose of building schools.
Of course the money was dumped into the general fund and government spending increased accordingly, not necessarily on schools.
to "build new schools" is the big government way to sell people on more taxes without lawmakers being tar-and-feathered.
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posted on
11/06/2013 1:46:26 PM PST
by
kidd
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