“The Mob” gets into any business where they can make money, especially attracted to cash sales businesses, and are a major force behind the push to legalize pot and other drugs.
They have moved into Colorado, both legally and illegally. They dominate many service industries in the North East. Some of their businesses are legit, but they are used to launder illegal receipts, and fund their illegal operations.
Stoner America is not where we need to go.
Hard to get exercised about mob activity when no one of any importance in the financial industry has gone to jail. Don't give me Madoff.
“The Mob” gets into any business where they can make money,
That’s exactly what I said. But allowing the businesses to be legal minimizes criminal involvement and violence. Because non-mob business owners can get *some* help from the government if the mob moves in. In an illegal businesses, the mob knows you have no protection at all and everything must be settled with guns.
“...especially attracted to cash sales businesses, and are a major force behind the push to legalize pot and other drugs.”
That doesn’t make sense these days. If pot was completely legal, most people would be buying it with credit instead of cash. Very few people nowadays use cash when they don’t have to.
Of course government can be corrupted too. Why do you think the Feds are forcing pot businesses to use cash for sales and paying growers? IF it was fully legal, every dollar spent on pot would be traceable AND it would benefit the legal business owners (by reducing taxes)
Making things 100% legal and open will minimize that corruption.