Posted on 06/13/2023 1:21:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I believe the majority of people are to lazy to do that. How many people do you see with vegetable gardens?
As usual, you have no clue.
The government decided that they’d regulate the crap out of the industry. Whereas there was already a well-established and bureaucrat free, tax free production and distribution system that was extremely efficient. Years ago the IRS won a lawsuit for unpaid taxes against the oldest running whore house in the nation, The Mustang Ranch. The IRS decided they’d run The Mustang Ranch until they got the money they said they were owed. It went bankrupt after almost 200 years in operation. It took only months for the IRS mismanagement to run it into the ground. A senator commented, “the government can’t make money selling pu$$y and beer.” Those two things sell themselves, until the government steps in to help.
More grow at home then buy these days.
My daughter and family were out there recently to visit family. They checked into an upscale hotel. Their room reeked of MJ. When they complained, the manager on duty replied sardonically "You know it is legal here now?"
My daughter replied "So is tobacco, but when you reserve a no smoking room, you expect it to be as advertised!" They had to leave and find another place.
I guess MJ has special rights in California that tobacco does not.
But, but, but they said it would pay eleventy billion dollars to like schools and stuff or something
I don’t know the economics or how to grow pot, but I assume it’s thousands of dollars to buy pot each year and about as hard to grow pot as any given flowering plant.
I bet a lot of people do it. Heck, other college kids did it when I was at MIT and that was . . . A long time ago.
California: so bad, even the potheads can’t stand living there anymore. Hopefully, they won’t bring their atrocious voting habits to Florida and other good states.
Barky famously once said “It’s the right thing to do” when someone smarter than he pointed out higher tax rates actually reduce, not increase, government revenue.
Taxes are seen as punishment for the little guy, or just desserts, or some damn thing like that. Leftism is based on many things, though envy is apparently key component. In their view, wealth can not be created, it is a fixed quantity and cannot be increased or decreased, merely re-distributed.
And by golly, they are the ones they have been waiting for, they are just the ones to be doin’ all that re-distributin’.
I know tobacco taxes are high, but other than NYC and people selling “loosies” I’ve never seen nor heard or been tempted to purchase un-taxed cigarettes.
I’d think at the confiscatory tax rates levied it would be a huge market. I don’t smoke, so maybe I don’t know the right people.
“Why, that’d be just like cheating the government!!” (Bonus points to anybody who knows what movie, and actor, uttered this line. Great moment in cinema
It looks a lot like the state governments look at the weed business as an inexhaustible source of free money. Doesn’t work that way. Who knew? Get this- they are dumber than POTHEADS.
Let’s look at the numbers.
15% excise + 7.25% state + 1% or 2% local, county, etc whatever = “F THAT, I AIN’T PAYIN’THAT!!!”
It’s really a mystery how that could happen.
FFFB
There was a time in my life when I was for drug legalization. My argument for it was that it allows for market regulation and corporate responsibility. What I did not consider is that governments are greedy and would tax the legal markets out of business, even if the corporate sellers didn’t price themselves out of it on their own. So defeats the purpose.
And, yes, the vast reasons against legalization were evident to me, such as social / legal endorsement, advertising effects, and normalization. What I see now is that legalization merely empowers the same characters and the same impulse, so, frankly, it doesn’t matter.
But the largest case against legalization is evident now: it empowers the worst of both worlds.
One would think that being Woody Allen would be punishment enough.
I have a good friend in CA who grows pot for a living and has done so for 49 years. While I don’t like his choice of profession, he’s a based dude and a good businessman. Years ago I asked him if he was concerned about CA legalizing pot and if he’d have to above board with his all cash business. He just laughed and said we can do it cheaper, and that government isn’t opening any new markets anyway given pot had been de facto legal for the last 20 years. He’s still thriving and raking in the cash. Oh, and employs about 20 people….
I have a good friend in CA who grows pot for a living and has done so for 49 years. While I don’t like his choice of profession, he’s a based dude and a good businessman. Years ago I asked him if he was concerned about CA legalizing pot and if he’d have to above board with his all cash business. He just laughed and said we can do it cheaper, and that government isn’t opening any new markets anyway given pot had been de facto legal for the last 20 years. He’s still thriving and raking in the cash. Oh, and employs about 20 people….
Does he grow it on public land?
Those legal weed growers just need to get out the bong and get high. Like, CHILL dude.
Taxes are not directly proportionsl to use. Californians can grow a buttload of weed for themselves, and to give away, or sell illegally. I’d wager use is probanly up, ghough taxes have slumped.
Black market means no taxes.
That’s a quaint reminder of days gone by. Are there times of no dope, these days?
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