To: davesdude
"...$7.7 billion per year in government expenditure on enforcement of prohibition. $5.3 billion of this savings would accrue to state and local governments, while $2.4 billion would accrue to the federal government."
Chump change.
Hells bells, they can get 30x that from Big Tobacco, and did a few years ago.
Pass the bong, dd.
To: butternut_squash_bisque
A net $14billion a year would not be a bad thing.
How much is the federal deficit?
16 posted on
04/24/2006 12:52:45 PM PDT by
MeanWestTexan
(Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
To: butternut_squash_bisque
Hells bells, they can get 30x that from Big Tobacco, and did a few years ago. Despite the fact that government profited far more from tobacco sales that "big tobacco" ever did.
46 posted on
04/24/2006 1:21:52 PM PDT by
MileHi
( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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