Recreational Pot Not Bringing In Tax Money That Was Expected

denver.cbslocal.com ^ | 9/2/2014 | Unknown

[rktman]

Oh WOW dude. I like totally forgot to pay the taxes on my last bag of weed and bought a bunch of brownies instead. Bummer huh?

[Darksheare]

NO!
Unpossible!

[jiggyboy]

But the state now has all that new additional infrastructure and employees, so win win all around.

[Da Coyote]

Liberals have a long and unbroken record of being wrong about virtually everything they choose to lead.

Colorado is currently infested with liberals, and sooner or later we’ll have to do with them as we will have to do with Muslims.

The Emperor Palpatine approach comes to mind.

[Huskrrrr]

So I guess pot smokers have something in common with those evil corporations.

[Responsibility2nd]

The problem is that buying pot is less expensive on the streets where people don’t have to pay taxes or fees.

Stupid stoners and idiot pro-dope losertarians are to blame here. But either way - black market (cheaper) or taxed and legal (expensive) - the winners are the drug cartels.

[mountainlion]

Chickenpooper blew it again.

[gdani]

How much is being saved on police not busting down people’s doors, shooting their dogs & clogging the courts with ticky-tack marijuana violations that bring in court fines & fees?

[txrefugee]

Surprise, surprise. Everyone should have seen this coming. With the banks not accepting dope money because of federal banking laws, most pot revenues are held in cash by the sellers.

[rktman]

Hmmmm. warren boofet/berkshire halfaway comes to mind. Yup. His secretary pays more taxes percentage wise than he did because he just pays capital gains with no “paycheck”. She of course pays based on a salary. Weird how the extremely wealthy can find any and all tax law loopholes there are. Guess that’s why they’re rich. Flat tax for all!

[tacticalogic]

the winners are the drug cartels

The gun grabbers and New Deal big government champions do pretty well.

[rdcbn]

As soon as pot is legalized, pot smokers will have to face a voracious government trying to collect as much tax money as possible as opposed to dealing with and overwhelmed police officers and a justice system that could really care less.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It looks like the politicians are going to have to “tax the hell out of it” some more. LOL!

[PoloSec]

Attempting to tax a product that grows like a WEED!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Too many people are happy with the police state and the war on drugs that steal their freedoms.

[moehoward]

If you'll allow me …….
"How much is being saved on police not busting down THE WRONG people’s doors, shooting their dogs……"

[tacticalogic]

overwhelmed police officers and a justice system that could really care less.

Asset forfeiture laws have turned some police officers into something more akin to bounty hunters, and they care very much.

[wardaddy]

That is nutty

Kill the libs?

Kill the pot smokers?

Where I live...Dixie....all the pot folks I know

Well over 100

Are gun owning right wingers

So good luck with your genocide down here

Well be waiting for you hoss

[goodnesswins]

And the largest Oregon newspaper just endorsed a measure for Oregon to legalize pot...for the taxes

[wastoute]

As I recall there was a reason it was called weed...